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Review:Bruce Sterling writes about the big law enforcement operations in the 1990s against the at that time active hacker-groups. It is interesting to re-read this book years later. Seeing what has changed in technology, and seeing that law enforcement has learned things about new technologies. Bruce describes very well what happened, from all sides (he interviewed the hackers, the cops involved, the lawyers and activists that stood up and other people). He admits at a certain point in the book that he has switched from being an observer to being actively involved.
(Review by Koos van den Hout)
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Review:A good history of UNIX is long overdue, and what better time to rectify such an
error than on the twenty-fifth birthday of the OS. Salus' account is quite
UNIX-like: powerful, concise and interesting--but the reader had better come
prepared with (a) some background, or (b) persistence in digging out between-
the-lines information.
As Salus points out, the story of UNIX has affected all current operating
systems. It is therefore no surprise that the stories of UNIX involve a
veritable who's who of the computer world. What *is* surprising is the lack of
referents to tie these people to their current positions. Peter Neumann is
credited with the original name of UNICS (UNiplexed Information and Computing
Service, a pun on "ema...
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(Review by Rob Slade)
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