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Back in the old days of text files and BBSes — days that hopefully you don't remember, kids — we used to do things like trade warez and pr0n cuz we were 1337 haXOrz man. No really, we were. But the people who were the true hackers of the 1980s and 90s were the people like Emmanuel Goldstein, who ran the underground techno-anarchist zine 2600 for curious, technically-minded people who wanted to learn about things such as tweaking the phone system or lock-picking or social engineering. Articles in 2600 became the stuff of legends, and influenced (for better or worse) movies like Sneakers and Hackers. Now the first-ever collection of these influential early hacker essays is coming out, just in time for the last-ever Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) conference in NYC. More »
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