Geek Reads: Part Two of The Hacker Crackdown

13.03.2011

Alex: Absolutely.

David: ...and I was never getting something as weird or high-profile as Phrack even.

Alex: As an impressionable (and horribly geeky) teenager I read a ton of cheesy cyberpunk fiction, and was heavily into games like Shadowrun; I remember a weird period in the early 90's when "paydata" was a thing.

David: Yeah the part about where hackers come from struck home for me because like, I got a modem young.

Alex: and you were hooked, huh?