Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier is a 1997 book by Suelette Dreyfus, researched by Julian Assange. It describes the exploits of a group of Australian, American, and British black hathackers during the late 1980s and early 1990s, among them Assange himself.
Craig Bowen (nickname), administrator of two important Australian BBS (Pacific Island and Zen)
Par, a.k.a.The Parmaster, an American hacker who avoided capture by the United States Secret Service from July 1989 to November 1991
The first chapter of Underground relates the diffusion and reactions of the computer security community to the WANK worm that attacked DECVMS computers over the DECnet in 1989 and was purportedly coded by a Melbourne hacker.
As of 2010[update], the book has sold 10,000 copies.[3] The author made the electronic edition of the book freely available in 2001, when it was announced on Slashdot, the server housing the book crashed due to the demand for the book.[4] It reached 400,000 downloads within two years.[3]
The 2002 documentary In the Realm of the Hackers, directed by Kevin Anderson and centered on Phoenix and Electron, was inspired by this book.
^Khatchadourian, Raffi (June 7, 2010). "No Secrets". The New Yorker.
^Underground, Chapter 8 (naming the three members of the IS group)
^ abLagan, Bernard (10 April 2010). "International man of mystery". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2010-11-19.
^"A Recipe Straight From the Heart". Wired. 13 February 2001.
External linksedit
Book Website
Underground: Hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic frontier by Dreyfus at Project Gutenberg
Online version of the book
April 15, 2024
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