Book description
Actual letters written to the leading hackers' magazine
For 25 years, 2600: The Hacker Quarterly has given voice to
the hacker community in all its manifestations. This collection of
letters to the magazine reveals the thoughts and viewpoints of
hackers, both white and black hat, as well as hacker wannabes,
technophiles, and people concerned about computer security. Insightful
and entertaining, the exchanges illustrate 2600's vast
readership, from teenage rebels, anarchists, and survivalists to law
enforcement, consumer advocates, and worried parents.
Dear Hacker is must reading for technology aficionados,
2600's wide and loyal audience, and anyone seeking
entertainment well laced with insight into our society.
Coverage Includes:
- Question Upon Question
- Tales from the Retail Front
- The Challenges of Life as a Hacker
- Technology
- The Magic of the Corporate World
- Our Biggest Fans
- Behind the Walls
- A Culture of Rebels
- Strange Ramblings
For more information and sample letters, check out the companion site
at http://lp. wileypub. com/dearhacker/
Emmanuel Goldstein
(emmanuel@goldste. in) has been publishing
2600 Magazine, The Hacker Quarterly
, since 1984. He traces his hacker roots to his high school days in the
late '70s, when he first played with a distant computer over highspeed,
300-baud phone lines. It didn't take long for him to get into trouble by
figuring out how to access something he wasn't supposed to access. He
continued playing with various machines in his college days at the State
University of New York at Stony Brook. This resulted in an FBI raid, as
he once again gained access to something he really shouldn't have. It
was in the midst of all this excitement that he cofounded
2600 Magazine
, an outlet for hacker stories and tutorials from all over the world.
The rapid growth and success of the magazine was both shocking and scary
to Goldstein, who to this day has never taken a course in computers.
Since 1988, he has also hosted
Off The Hook
, a hacker-themed technology talk show on WBAI 99. 5 FM in New York
City. In addition to making the hacker documentary
Freedom Downtime
, Goldstein hosts the Hackers On Planet Earth (HOPE) conferences in New
York City every two years, drawing thousands of hackers from all over
the world.
