The greatest hacker ever 1-6

This is in no way a formal history of the computer era, or of the particular arenas I focus upon. Indeed, many of the people you will meet here are not the most famous names (certainly not the most wealthy) in the annals of computing. Instead, these are the backroom geniuses who understood the machine at its most profound levels, and presented us with a new kind of life-style and a new kind of hero.

A paper written circa 1990 at Virginia Tech, in the Science and Technology Studies (STS) program. The ergodics business will be followed up eventually.

Currently, a hacker is defined as a person using computers to explore a network to which he or she did not belong. Hackers find new ways to harass people, defraud corporations, steal information and maybe even destroy valuable information by infiltrating private and nonprivate organizations. According to recent research, bad hackers make up only a small minority of the hacker community. In today's society, we depend on more technology than ever and that increases the likelihood of hackers having more control over cyberspace. Hackers work by collecting information on the intended target, figuring out the best plan of attack and then exploiting vulnerabilities in the system. Programs such as Trojan horses and Flame viruses are designed and used by hackers to get access to computer networks. This paper describes how hacker behavior is aimed at information security and what measures are being taken to combat them.

Techné, 2005

New Media & Society, 2006

The Scientists: An Epic of Discovery, 2012

Alan Turing has a rightful claim to the title of father of modern computing. He laid the theoretical groundwork for a universal machine that models a computer in its most general form before World War II. During the war, Turing was instrumental in developing and influencing actual computing devices that have been said to have shortened the war by up to two years by decoding encrypted enemy messages that were believed by others to be unbreakable. Unlike some theoreticians, he was willing to be involved with practical aspects, and was as happy to wield a soldering iron as he was to wrestle with a mathematical problem, normally from a unique angle compared to others.

Social Justice, 2015

2004

"A double is haunting the world--the double of abstraction, the virtual reality of information, programming or poetry, math or music, curves or colorings upon which the fortunes of states and armies, companies and communities now depend. The bold aim of this book is to make manifest the origins, purpose, and interests of the emerging class responsible for making this new world--for producing the new concepts, new perceptions, and new sensations out of the stuff of raw data. A Hacker Manifesto deftly defines the fraught territory between the ever more strident demands by drug and media companies for protection of their patents and copyrights and the pervasive popular culture of file sharing and pirating. This vexed ground, the realm of so-called ""intellectual property,"" gives rise to a whole new kind of class conflict, one that pits the creators of information--the hacker class of researchers and authors, artists and biologists, chemists and musicians, philosophers and programmers--against a possessing class who would monopolize what the hacker produces. Drawing in equal measure on Guy Debord and Gilles Deleuze, A Hacker Manifesto offers a systematic restatement of Marxist thought for the age of cyberspace and globalization. In the widespread revolt against commodified information, McKenzie Wark sees a utopian promise, beyond the property form, and a new progressive class, the hacker class, who voice a shared interest in a new information commons.