Before the news media made the transition to online servies, everything was on paper, and if a BBS user wanted to share, they had to type in the entire article themselves and pass it along. This directory will fill as time goes on with professionally transcribed stories, but peppered here and there are those labors of love, trying to spread the word.
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092793.txt | 4875 | Computer Porn Case Triggers Legal Questions from Daily Oklahoman Newspaper (September 27, 1993)
| 17arr.txt | 2515 | 17 Arrested in High-Tech Phone Fraud by Lee Catterall and William Green, Typed in by Skatepunk (1988)
| 1stamend | 6839 | Showdown over Computer 'Crime" by Brooks Boliek (August 5, 1990)
| 26008586.txt | 22884 | Excerpts from Various Issues of 2600 Magazine, by The Fixer
| 2600dcr1.txt | 8042 | Reports of "Raid" on 2600 Washington Meeting 11/09/92
| 2600dcr2.txt | 4525 | Secret Service Role Questioned in "2600 Washington Raid" (November 10, 1992)
| 2600dcr3.txt | 4451 | Conflicting Stories in 2600 Raid (November 11, 1992)
| 2600dcrp.txt | 6085 | Hackers Allege Harassment at Mall; Pentagon City Guards Stop Meeting, Tell Computer Group to Leave. by Robert O'Harrow, Jr.
| 2600raid.txt | 21162 | A Raid on a 2600 Meeting (November 7, 1992)
| adshack.hac | 10821 | The FBI Goes after ADS Hackers
| agnts.nfo | 7878 | Computer Criminal Caught After 10 Months On The Run by Keith Stone (August 30th, 1994)
| akronbbs.txt | 12233 | Police Say They Were Taking a Byte Out of Crime, by Charlene Nevada, Beacon Journal, March 22, 1993
| arrest.txt | 2688 | Two Juveniles Arrested in BBS Extortion Case
| article.txt | 2377 | ASCII and Ye Shall Recieve (Analysis and Criticism by the Slipped Disk)
| bardbyte.txt | 8836 | The Bard Bytes Dust, by Charles Burress (SF Chronicle, 1986) Typed in by The Unknown User
| baudy.hac | 88653 | The Baudy World of the Byte Bandit: A Postmodernist Interpretation of the Computer Underground (Thesis, 1990)
| bawdybds.txt | 10976 | Bulletin Bawdy, from "The Games Machine" July 1988
| bbscase.txt | 11383 | Akron BBS Trial Update: Dangerous Precedents in Sysop Prosecution
| bbscourt.txt | 19292 | About Litigation on BBSes in the USA, April, 1990
| bbssting.txt | 4995 | Police Set Up Bulletin Board Stings by Jim Forbes of Infoworld
| bcwired.asc | 28785 | What Does a Nobel Prize for Radio Astronomy Have to Do with Your Telephone? by Richard Rapaport
| biblio | 6030 | Computer Hackers News Articles by Bob Krause
| bmbmnul.txt | 3005 | Student Disciplined for Bomb Manual, from the Collinsville Herald-Journal (March 21, 1993)
| boardwat.txt | 46733 | Board Watch Magazine: Volume 7, Issue 4, April 1993
| boh-20f8.txt | 102242 | Bildschirmtext: A Blow Against the System (Chaos Computer Club (November 30, 1984)
| bp.txt | 23907 | Hackers Under Attack: Crackdown Raises Questions about New Forms of Speech, by Mark Leccese (September 7, 1990)
| bucks.txt | 896 | Millionaire Gets Mugged In Park He Donated To
| bust1lod.hac | 11308 | U.S. computer investigation targets Austinites
| busted | 6112 | All About the Cherry Hill Phreak Busts
| busweek.txt | 6363 | Does Someone Have Your Company's Number?: Phone Hackers are Tapping PBXs, Running Up Millions in Charges (February 4, 1991)
| c0smos.nws | 5101 | The Story of the C0SM0S BBS
| cable.hac | 16727 | The true story of John Maxfield, electronic private eye, by John Manning
| captain.phk | 2759 | An Apple for the Captain
| captaina.hac | 9162 | Who is Captain Zap? (Article from Washington Post)
| captmidn.txt | 24394 | The Legend of Captain Midnight and HBO
| chesire.phk | 13228 | Who is Cheshire Catalyst? (Article in Technology Illustrated)
| cptcrnch.txt | 23126 | Raping Ma Bell: Captain Crunch, by Zbigniew Kindela of Hustler Magazine, February 1979
| craig.fun | 2176 | The Urban Legend of Craig Shergold strikes in Kennewick, WA, USA, 15 Jan 1992
| crime.hac | 12567 | Is there Computer Crime, and what are the results?
| crime1.txt | 2354 | Computer Crime Becoming "Less Sophisticated", Margie Wylie, May 1990 Computerworld
| crimes.txt | 9555 | Going Undercover In The Computer Underworld by Ralph Blumenthal (The New York Times) January 26, 1993
| crunchy.txt | 5276 | Phone Phreak Eyes Computers (More on John Draper)
| crypto.txt | 12550 | Promising Technology Alarms Government, by Joe Abernathy of the Houston Chronicle (1992)
| csuicide.txt | 8534 | Programmed for Life and Death, by John Markoff, New York Times, 1990
| cybrnazi.txt | 2379 | CyberNazis Baffle German Politc (February 1994)
| cybrshit.rdt | 10590 | Heavily Angrily Commented Transcript/Discussion about the BCS/Speech Discussion on Cyberpunks by John Markoff
| cycrime1.hac | 65213 | Crime and Puzzlement, by John Perry Barlow (Introduction to the Electronic Frontier Foundation)
| dedsheep.txt | 8222 | Bighorn Sheep Massacre A Mystery, By Keith Rogers, Las Vegas Review-Journal/Sun, Sunday November 24, 1991
| delorean.txt | 3951 | The DeLorean Case
| demonews.67 | 21689 | DEMO NEWS #67, October 23-29, 1994
| demonews.68 | 21522 | DEMO NEWS #68, October 30-November 5, 1994
| demonews.69 | 19707 | DEMO NEWS #69, November 6-12, 1994
| demonews.70 | 45893 | DEMO NEWS #70, November 13-19, 1994
| dibbel.hac | 35066 | "On Line and Out of Bounds..." By Julian Dibbell (Needs Editing)
| dibbel.txt | 35066 | On line and Out of Bounds by Julian Dibbell
| digital.txt | 22352 | Digital Underground, by Mark Bennett (September 12, 1992)
| digundrg.txt | 22533 | Digital Underground, by Mark Bennettm Published in i-D Technology (September 12th, 1992)
| donahue.txt | 21381 | Transcript of a Phil Donahue Show about Hackers (March 15, 1985) from P-80 Systems
| emmanuel.txt | 25110 | An Interview with Emmanuel Goldstein, by CNN (1999)
| ethics.hac | 3948 | Newsweek: Teaching Hackers Ethics
| fadehack.txt | 2646 | The Fading Hacker Mystique: No Longer Just Pests from Computer Shopper, transcribed by Mac?? (August 24, 1991)
| fbi1 | 2488 | PC Bulletin Board Hit by FBI Raid, by Josh Hyatt (Boston Globe), June 14, 1992
| fbi2 | 2517 | Colonel Guilty of Sending Porn via Computer
| fbi20 | 1693 | 30 Arrests In Silicon Valley Computer Parts Sting 01/13/93
| fbibust2 | 2853 | The Raid of Hackers in Irvine, California, by Uncle Fester
| freeware.txt | 12731 | Andrew Flugleman: In Memoriam
| gangplan.txt | 7245 | The Bloods and the Crips propose to face-lift LA
| genius.txt | 8414 | The Latest Cult Hero: J R. Bob Dodds
| geraldo.txt | 28587 | Now it Can Be Told: Mad Hacker's Key Party, by Geraldo Rivera (September 30, 1991)
| guilty.txt | 7734 | Hacker Pleads Guilty in AT&T Case: Sentence Urged for Md. Man Among Stiffest Yet for Computer Crime, by Mark Potts of Washington Post
| hack-nsa.txt | 3530 | Hackers Retaliate by Leaking Manual, by Keay Davidson, Examiner Science Writer
| hacker.hac | 8900 | Abuse Hits Computer Networks
| hacker2.txt | 2432 | The Cops Got His Number: Teen accused of harassment calls via computer, San Jose Mercury News
| hackers | 6591 | An Article about High School Hackers by Argon PhoenixFire and Beta Ray Bill (February 28, 1985)
| hackers.txt | 58203 | Is Computer Hacking a Crime? (March 1990 Harper's Magazine)
| hackers.unite | 8704 | Hackers of the World, Unite! By John Schwartz and Typed by Apple Adept (July 2, 1990)
| hackers1.hac | 5582 | Amateur Hackers Tripped Up (Telegram-Tribune Newspaper, Mar. 23, 1991)
| hackers2.hac | 6818 | Computer Case Takes a Twist (Telegram-Tribune Newspaper, Mar. 29, 1991)
| hackers3.hac | 2812 | Hackers off Hook, Property Returned ((Telegram-Tribune Newspaper, Apr. 12, 1991)
| hackerth | 4307 | Hacker "Theives" by Silent Revel (July 18, 1985)
| hacknasa | 2270 | NASA vs. Hobbyist: Computer Whiz Accused of Illegal Access, Mischief, by Peter G. Chronis
| hackpape.hac | 7052 | The Hacker Papers (Psychology Today Aug. '80)
| hackrfoe.txt | 7143 | HACKERS: Friend or Foe? by Ken McLeod (1986)
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