The Hacker Crackdown – world’s first online published Literary Freeware – by Bruce Sterling tells the story of US law enforcement, crackers, hackers and electronic civil liberties activist.

Read The Hacker Crackdown in HTML format.

• Published in 1992 by Bruce Sterling as ASCII (plain text files), retrievable by gopher.
• This version is based on the Texinfo edition 1.2, created by Jörg Heitkötter and published on January 23, 1994.
• Put on the web in HTML format on November 17th, 1998 by Edde Beket.