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The Hacker Crackdown, Part 24

Here's part twenty-four of my reading of Bruce Sterling's brilliant, seminal book The Hacker Crackdown, a 1992 book that recounts the events that led to the founding of The Electronic Frontier Foundation, my former employer.

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6 Responses to “The Hacker Crackdown, Part 24”

1. Jesse Weinstein says:

   December 16, 2007 at 12:52 pm

   BTW, at least according to the copy at http://www.mit.edu/hacker/part4.html , the word "circuit" in the phrase: "Although Node to PSAP circuit are official services", should be singular, not plural as you speak it in the podcast. No, this does not matter. :-)
2. Jesse Weinstein says:

   December 16, 2007 at 1:02 pm

   Oh, and another (from same source): the document has "PSAP fill out inquiry form on every", you say, "PSAP fill out the inquiry form on every", adding a "the". And, once again, this does not matter. :-)
3. Jesse Weinstein says:

   December 16, 2007 at 1:08 pm

   And two more (I'd imagine you were getting tired... I would be.)
   "the customer may not be aware there is a trouble," -- you left out "a". & "The report is automatically directed to the IMC for subscriber line testing." -- you added a "the", making "for the subscriber line testing". As you can guess, neither of these matter either. :-)
4. Mike says:

   December 18, 2007 at 7:25 am

   I think we need an official "I survived the e911 document" bumper sticker or something. I felt I owed it to you to listen to every lat word of it. You should be applauded for feeling compelled to record it for us.
5. Paul Renault says:

   December 19, 2007 at 4:48 am

   ..the reading made me laugh out loud. Twice!

   'Analyzation' indeed!
6. Paul Renault says:

   December 19, 2007 at 4:50 am

   The reading made me laugh out loud. Twice!

   "Analyzation", indeed.

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