Crime Dot Com: From Viruses to Vote Rigging, How Hacking Went Global by Geoff White (review)

Likely because White's focus is the 1990s and online hacking, he misses the historical firsts preceding that decade. Since 1984, hackers in Germany have organized the Chaos Communication Congress, which had 300 participants by the late 1980s. Hackers's first gathering was not in the era of...

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Published in:Technology and culture 2021, Vol.62 (4), p.1272-1273
Main Author: Erdogan, Julia Gül
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Communication
Computer networks
Crime
Cybercrime
Dark web
Drugs
Hackers
Hacking
History of medicine and histology
Journalists
Networking
Rigging
Technological change
Viruses
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Summary:Likely because White's focus is the 1990s and online hacking, he misses the historical firsts preceding that decade. Since 1984, hackers in Germany have organized the Chaos Communication Congress, which had 300 participants by the late 1980s. Hackers's first gathering was not in the era of Bulletin Board Systems (p. 15), as hardware hackers had already met at the Homebrew Computer Club in the 1970s and the newsletter TAP enabled networking before these online message boards. [...]the dark web, largely known for the distribution of drugs, also enables secure communication for journalists and activists (ch. 6).
ISSN:0040-165X
1097-3729
1097-3729
DOI:10.1353/tech.2021.0176