Hackers: Crime and the Digital Sublime

ISBN-13: 9780415180726 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 216 str.

Paul A. Taylor

Opis

The practice of computer hacking is increasingly being viewed as a major security dilemma in Western societies, by governments and security experts alike. Using material taken from interviews with a wide range of interested parties such as computer scientists, security experts and hackers themselves, Paul Taylor provides a revealing and richly sourced account of the debates that surround this controversial practice. By doing so, he reveals the dangers inherent in the extremes of conciliation and antagonism with which society reacts to hacking and argues that a new middle way must be found if we are to make the most of society's high-tech meddlers.

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1 Them and us; Chapter 2 Hacking culture; Chapter 3 The motivations of hackers; Chapter 4 State of the industry; Chapter 5 Them and us; Chapter 6 The professionalisation process; Chapter 7 The construction of computer ethics; Chapter 8 Conclusion;

O autorze

Paul Taylor is lecturer in sociology at the University of Salford