ISBN: 0-14-100051-1
Required reading for any real
hacker.
Steven Levy (recently, author of
Crypto) traces hacking through several of its early periods, from
The Model Railroad Club, or
TMRC, at
MIT, through the
MIT AI Lab, through the
Homebrew Computer Club and
Steve Wozniak, and from there into a few early
Californian gaming companies (namely,
Sierra On-Line,
Brøderbund, and
Sirius), and concludes with a brief look at the exploits of
Richard M. Stallman. A scarily accurate look at the
hacker psyche. Any real hacker will recognize himself somewhere in this book.
And it's funny too.