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. The Knight Lightning trial is a great example of how close we came to a radically different Internet, David says. The case is a good example of Mitch Kapour’s thing about decentralized internet infrastructure as an organizing model for the 21st century.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2127837/geek-reads–the-hacker-crackdown-finale.html