The Hacker Crackdown:

The Hacker Crackdown is a book written by Bruce Sterling in 1992. The book was actually online called an ebook which allowed any person that could access the internet to read it legally and for free.

The ebook is about the new technology in computers and telephones and the chapters take the reader through the problems that technology was faced with. The first chapter called 'crashing the system' tells the reader the story that occured on the 15th of January 1990, that 60,000 people lost their telephone connections and it took weeks to fix the problem at the telephone company AT&T. They then blamed themselves for the problems that occured, even though it was actually hackers that had got into the system.