Hello, and welcome to the fourth installment in our weekend column! we met the white hat hackers and law enforcement luminaries like Gail Thackeray, who proved the line between cybercops and the hackers they hunt is actually pretty thin. Nowadays anyone with an Internet connection and some free time can hack their phone, but twenty years ago the word "hack" was still a strange and terrifying thing.The Hacker Crackdown of 1990 was the downfall of the hacker elite, but it was also the rise of civil liberterianism in cyberspace. This week we close out our chatroom discussion of Sterling's opus with the trial of Knight Lightning and the advent of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Join us, won't you?