Phone Losers of America - Everything you ever wanted to know about the telephone including everything the phone company really doesn't want anyone to know. Everything you find here can get you into really big trouble with any & all authority figures. But that's what makes it so much fun! Read incredible stories while learning some amazing tricks along the way. Great fun and police raids for the ...

Full text of the book, The Hacker Crackdown, by Bruce Sterling published in 1992. This is a book about cops, and wild teenage whiz-kids, and lawyers, and hairy-eyed anarchists, and industrial technicians, and hippies, and high-tech millionaires, and game hobbyists, and computer security experts, and Secret Service agents, and grifters, and thieves. This book is about the electronic frontier of the 1990s. It concerns activities that take place inside computers and over telephone lines.

Long article by Charles Platt for Wired, November 1994. Wired attends Hackers on Planet Earth, the convention of phone phreak mag 2600, and discovers who Emmanuel Goldstein really is.

Article by Allan Lundell & Geneen Marie Haugen for InfoWorld, October 1, 1984. Woz had imagined Crunch to be a superengineer, a consultant to the computer industry, an ultragenius driving a van equipped to do everything but fly -- a hybrid version of James Bond, the Man from U.N.C.L.E., and the professor on "Gilligan's Island." but at this first meeting in the Berkeley dorms ol' Woz did a double take. Standing before him was, well, a madman. With long frizzy hair, the Crunch was wild-eyed and almost tooth