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Everything and anything is a code for the hacker to hack, be it "programming, language, poetic language, math, or music, curves or colourings" [4] and once hacked, they create the possibility for new things to enter the world. What they create is not necessarily "great", or "even good", but new, in the areas of culture, art, science, and ...
The magazine said that the book was not easy to read, but that it would expose experienced programmers to both old and new topics. [ 8 ] A review of SICP as an undergraduate textbook by Philip Wadler noted the weaknesses of the Scheme language as an introductory language for a computer science course. [ 9 ]
The Hacker Manifesto is mentioned in Edward Snowden's autobiography Permanent Record. Amplitude Problem's 2019 album Crime of Curiosity, featuring The Mentor himself, YTCracker, Inverse Phase and Linux kernel maintainer King Fisher of TRIAD is dedicated to The Hacker Manifesto. Each song title is a phrase from the essay. [7]
The Hacker Bible is a publication of the German hacker organization Chaos Computer Club (CCC). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It has been published in two editions to date, 1985 and 1988. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Both were edited by Wau Holland and published on the Grüne Kraft press.
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (ISBN 0-385-19195-2) is a book by Steven Levy about hacker culture. It was published in 1984 in Garden City , New York by Doubleday . Levy describes the people, the machines, and the events that defined the Hacker culture and the Hacker Ethic , from the early mainframe hackers at MIT , to the self-made ...
This still serves as the most famous piece of hacker literature and is frequently used to illustrate the mindset of hackers. Astronomer Clifford Stoll plays a pivotal role in tracking down hacker Markus Hess, events later covered in Stoll's 1990 book The Cuckoo's Egg. [29]
The Hacker's Handbook is a non-fiction book in four editions, each reprinted numerous times between 1985 and 1990, and explaining how phone and computer systems of the period could be 'hacked'.
The book also mentions other hackers who had contacts with the protagonists, among them Erik Bloodaxe of the Legion of Doom and Corrupt of the Masters of Deception. The first chapter of Underground relates the diffusion and reactions of the computer security community to the WANK worm that attacked DEC VMS computers over the DECnet in 1989 and ...