- Editor:
- Peter Ludlow,
- Foreword By:
- Mike Godwin
From the Publisher: foreword by Mike Godwin "...The two sides of the dispute appear in dueling essays as part of a massive collection, titled High Noon on the Electronic Frontier, edited by Peter Ludlow and coming in June from The MIT Press. I hate the title, but this collection covers many timely issues, such as property rights, computer crime and cryptography. If you make your living by writing code, you have to read this book." -- Peter Coffee, PC Week Peter Ludlow has culled from various sources, both print and electronic, key articles on hot cyberspace policy issues, together with lively extracts from online discussions of these issues. These include the standard academic pieces along with "rants and manifestos" on a broad range of issues from the denizens of cyberspace and reflect the discourse of cyberspace itself. At times they have what Ludlow terms "a certain gonzo quality," but nonetheless they raise serious conceptual issues in a way that illustrates precisely what is at stake. The topics covered in this timely compilation include privacy, property rights, hacking and cracking, encryption, censorship, and self and community on-line. The writings/discussions: John Perry Barlow · Wine Without Bottles Simson L. Garfinkel, Richard M. Stallman, and Mitchell Kapor · Why Software Patents Are Bad The League for Programming Freedom · Against Software Patents Paul Heckel · Debunking the Software Patent Myths Pirate editorial · So You Want to Be a Pirate Mike Godwin · Some "Property" Problems in a Computer Crime Prosecution The Mentor · The Conscience of a Hacker Julian Dibbell · The Prisoner: Phiber Optik Goes Directly to Jail Dorothy E. Denning · Concerning Hackers Who Break into Computer Systems Congressional Testimony by Emmauel Goldstein Philip Zimmermann · How PGP Works/Why Do You Need PGP Steven Levy · Crypto Rebels John Perry Barlow · Jackboots on the Infobahn Dorothy E. Denning · The Clipper Chip Will Block Crime The Denning-Barlow Clipper Chip Debate David Chaum · Achieving Electronic Privacy Timothy C. May · A Crypto-Anarchist Manifesto Blacknet · Blacknet Worries Philip Elmer-Dewitt · Censoring Cyberspace ACLU Letter to CMU Mike Godwin · Virtual Community Standards Jeffrey Shallit · Public Networks and Censorship Mike Godwin · Sex and the Single Sysadmin: The Risks of Carrying Graphic Sexual Materials Computer and Academic Freedom News: List of Banned Files on College Campuses Amy S. Bruckman · Gender Swapping on the Internet Elizabeth Reid · Text-Based Virtual Realities: Identity and the Cyborg Body Pavel Curtis · Mudding: Social Phenomena in Text-Based Virtual Realities Julian Dibbell · Rape in Cyberspace Elizabeth Reid · Communication and Community on IRC: Constructing Communities Howard Rheingold · A Slice of My Life in My Virtual Community humdog · pandora's vox: on community in cyberspace James DiGiovanna · Losing Your Voice on the Internet Appendixes John Perry Barlow · Crime and Puzzlement Peter Ludlow · Hardware 1: The Italian Hacker Crackdown Information about Electronic Frontiers Italy (ALCEI) About ALCEI Membership Bruce Sterling · Why I Have Joined ALCEI Online Activism Resource List 4.05 More on High Noon ...