Ethics on the Electronic Frontier

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Hackers and their First Amendment - Freedom of Information

Required Readings

• Dorothy Denning, "Concerning Hackers Who Break into Computer Systems"
• Telecommunications Reform Act, "Update and Protest"
  

Recommended Readings

• Selected Issues of Phrack Magazine - this is the kind of stuff out there that hackers say is better to be published than silenced
  Phrack, Volume 4 Issue 43, File 20 of 27 The Step-by-Step Guide to Stealing a Camaro, by Spy Ace.
  Phrack, Volume 3 Issue 30, File 9 of 12 The Truth about Lie Detectors, by Razor's Edge.
• Jim Balderston, "Das Boot".
  An analysis of the new San Francisco boot and how to beat it. Why is this information available in print but banned on a BBS? How should the First Amendment extend?

Additional Readings

• "Documentation and Diagrams of the Atomic Bomb", file courtesy of Outlaw Labs.