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any good book about the hacking culture or IRC subculture? I'm more interest in the historic part of the hacking world book like: the cult of the dead cow by joseph menn cyberia by douglas rushkoff

The jargon file is full of this, much of it kind of masturbatory. My favorite is a story about a magic switch which you can read about in the most detail here: https://github.com/PDP-10/its/issues/1232

>>6382 >any good book about the hacking culture or IRC subculture? I'm more interest in the historic part of the hacking world File related covers Australian hacker scene very well. >the cult of the dead cow by joseph menn This book is kind of boring. Does it get interesting later on? Not even halfway through the story and they've sold out to @stake and the US government. Underground >>6383 Also shadowrun glossary. Pure cyberpunk http://www.land-of-kain.de/shadowrun/tables/TableSlang.html

>>6386 Forgot to say, it's Underground by Julian Assange and Suelette Dreyfus. Shame epubs don't have covers on lainchan

>>6382 This is a great story, reads like a novel but is full of tech specs and explains the world at the time

>>6382 Are you interested in conventional UNIX-bro "hacker culture" mythology and freetardism? Are you interested in crypto-anarchy and cypherpunks? The cracker-hackers? Do you know Russian and want to read about Russian cracker-hacker culture? Or well, maybe you're interested in a completely different kind of hackers, as in the first non-original use of this word: underground tunnel explorers from MIT Model Railroad and Signalling club? >>6429 Why not provide the book itself, or at least a link to libgen? Give man a fishing reel with fish attached to the hook to teach one who has never seen fishing relationship between the two. http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=935F57390AE6CA7DD9567A327FD42D0B

>>6382 >cyberia by douglas rushkoff I've been reading this one but it talks a little about computers and hackers and then it goes on and on and on about psychadelic drugs instead.

>>6382 >hacker, hoaxer, whistleblower, spy by gabriella coleman https://archive.org/details/GabriellaColemanHackerHoaxerWhistleblowerSpyTheManyFacesOfAnonymous

>>6382 tangentially related, do any of you know some good sources to learn about old-school phreaking and the culture that surrounded it?

>>6439 >>6382 Regarding IRC/BBS and phone phreaking culture I'd recommend Phone Losers, on their website you can download the books in whatever format but I'll share the pdf here for those curious. There's also some resources online with backups of old IRC logs that are interesting, the links escape me. I know this is more /vis/ but if you're interested in more history on bbs culture then here's a great documentary: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=nO5vjmDFZaI

its not exactly a book but https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMeO4qAG8WY

an interesting book about early cybersecurity, espionage and hacking

>>6439 There is also a 2600 book filled with old articles.

>>6499 Cliff Stoll is a really cool dude.

I read this as a kid and liked it.

>>6382 History nerd? I like u. A german compendium, from those fellas (ccc a.o.) mentioned in link below. https://web.archive.org/web/20160111215508/https://monoskop.org/images/8/8a/Die_Hackerbibel_2_(German).pdf >>6499 vids related: Add to that 'the KGB, the Computer, and me' or similar (tv series episode and a film). https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0308449/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1453722/ I know, don't want to lit /lit/, but it relates to the book/story, was not mentioned here. Hope is alright. iirc in one of them Cliff 'the pea counter' Stoll def had taken part. Both about same length, not sure what I had seen, just one. Long time no watch, so I list the two.Sadly no source, sb can catch 'em?? Also this young man - Karl Werner Lothar Koch / 'Hagbard' - and his related 1989 story should be checked. https://web.archive.org/web/20001018130608/http://www.hagbard-celine.de/ https://web.archive.org/web/20220425202938/https://www.hagbard-celine.de/ German only, sorry. Site & pdf compiled by friends of his. Somewhat related - story about ccc hacks, transpired in 1987. Thanks to such snafus, others - like Koch et al. (see above) - actually got inspired first iirc. https://web.archive.org/web/20170915095327/https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/BitBang-Vor-30-Jahren-kam-der-NASA-Hack-ans-Licht-3832471.html German only, sorry - prelude. >>6439 Really old-time stuff about phreaks is covered with 'Cap'n Crunch' aka John T Draper , guess whos idea was copied by Woz and that lil' soykaf, Jobs? Made their first monies with it.. It is 1950s to '70s stuff afaik, not sure if/how many kept records. A bunch of 'party line'rs have passed the phone by now, sadly. Honourable mention to 'Joybubbles', Josef C Engressia (rip). To him it meant the world, literally. Been a cool boy. https://web.archive.org/web/20110122070835/https://robson.org/gary/a-blacklisted1.php >6441 posted a compendium it seems, I didnt know (thx mate). Also 1980s/90s ISDN - see Boris Floricic / 'Tron', his 'Cryptophon' may be interesting, esp. given the time frame. Info on book by acquaintance, did not read myself, so no link. Anyone got it? https://web.archive.org/web/20080115082023/http://www.burks.de/burksblog/tron-tod-eines-hackers/ Device prototype - said to have rt capability, fully digital, when many still used modem over analogue line. Boy been a fiddler. https://web.archive.org/web/20220628130112/https://berlin.museum-digital.de/object/9077 Stuff is German only, sorry - is a thing back then, late millenium. Godspeed friends.