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          1. The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier. mikerugnetta/1108471213381378049
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          It's hard to describe, because I'm sure that some people read Hacker Crackdown and were inspired to be journalists, FBI, or full on Hackers. What really stuck with me though was the idea of pairing tech with ethics, even when that laid outside of the traditional laws.
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        In some ways we're on the other side of this now. It isn't that the law is too strong on tech, it's the other side, it isn't strong enough. It's still a lawless frontier out here, but a mirror image of Hacker Crackdown's depiction, sorta from Wild West to Gold Rush.
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      I also was super fascinated by GURPS, cyberpunk fiction, and the weird ideas around collaborative storytelling on BBS that wove in and out of Hacker Crackdown. Worth noting I totally stumbled across a copy of the open-sourced text in a .txt file on a high school computer.
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    It ended up breaking me out of a rut of traditional SF reading and into non-fiction and more computer-focused stuff, including getting more into learning to code and think about video games in the context of the real world, all of which carried on to future jobs.
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