By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026Hacker braggadocio has always had a symbiotic relationship with their adversaries and critics. 1994
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026When corporate security people wanted to stampede the FBI and Secret Service into kicking down hackers' doors in the 1990s, they used those hackers' own profane zine articles and message board shit-talk to make the case: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/101gutenberg.orgThe Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier by Bruce SterlingThe Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier by Bruce Sterling. Free eBook digitized and proofread by volunteers. 11138
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026Much has been made of the OpenAI chatbots' dialog during the Hugging Face incident. No wonder: it reads like a rejected script for a reboot of the movie "Hackers." 11249
