1994-05-03 - Rucker on “Cryps”

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From: Arthur Chandler <arthurc@crl.com>
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From: Arthur Chandler <arthurc@crl.com>
Date: Tue, 3 May 94 15:54:39 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Rucker on "Cryps"
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   There is an unflattering picture of crackers and anti-crackers (and
crypto-heads?) in Rudy Rucker's new novel, *The Hacker and the Ants*.
Here's a sample: 
                     * * * * * * * * * *
  In the valley these days, phreaks were youths who cobbled together 
their own approximation of a decent cyberspace deck and afterward used it 
for weird cyberspace pranks. Cryps were phreaks who'd turned professional 
and gone into the employ of companies involved in industrial espionage. 
If you broke into some company's machines often enough, they were likely 
to hire you as a cryp to break into other companies, or they might use 
you as a security consultant to keep out the other cryps. It was a 
vicious circle -- the cryps' security-cracking escapades created a demand 
for the services they could provide.

    (*The Hacker and the Ants*, page 90)






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