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<p>The AT&T long-distance network crashes, and millions of calls go unanswered. A computer hacker reprograms a switching station, and calls to a Florida probation office are shunted to a New York phone-sex hotline. An underground computer bulletin board publishes a pilfered BellSouth document on the 911 emergency system, making it available to anyone who dials up. How did so much illicit power reach the hands of an undisciplined few - and what should be done about it? You are about to descend into a strange netherworld - one that sprang into existence when computers were first connected to telephones. This place has no physical location; it exists only in the networks that bind together its population. Like any frontier, it is home to a wide range of personalities, from legitimate computer professionals to those known only by their noms de net; denizens like Knight Lightning, Leftist, Compu-Phreak, Major Havoc, and Silver Spy; groups like the Lords of Chaos, Phantom Access Associates, Shadow Brotherhood, and the Coalition of Hi-Tech Pirates. This is not normal space, but cyberspace. And if you use a computer, cyberspace is moving inexorably closer to you with each passing day. Your

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Author

Sterling, Bruce

Publisher

Viking/Penguin Group

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9780553080582

Category

history

Subjects

Social Science, Computer Science, Fiction

Rating

3.8 / 5 (2,399 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13