Books About Hackers

• Sterling, Bruce. The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier. New York, NY: Bantam, 1992, ISBN
  0-553-08058-X (paperback ISBN 0-553-56370-X).
  Covers the "hacker crackdowns" of 1990, including a number of UNIX hacks.
• Hafner, Katie, and John Markoff. Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1991, ISBN 0-671-68322-5 (paperback ISBN 0-684-81862-0).
  A tightly-written account of three hackers: Kevin Mitnick, Pengo, and Robert T. Morris.
• Levy, Steven. Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution. New York, NY: Dell, 1984, ISBN 0-385-19195-2 (paperback ISBN 0-385-31210-5).
  A classic about the origins of the computer industry.
• Stoll, Cliff. The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1989, ISBN 0-385-24946-2 (paperback ISBN 0-671-72688-9).
  A general interest title that contains many nuggets of wisdom about UNIX security.