Before the news media made the transition to online servies, everything wason paper, and if a BBS user wanted to share, they had to type in the entirearticle themselves and pass it along. This directory will fill as time goeson with professionally transcribed stories, but peppered here and thereare those labors of love, trying to spread the word.

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Filename	Size	Description of the Textfile
092793.txt	4875	Computer Porn Case Triggers Legal Questions from Daily Oklahoman Newspaper (September 27, 1993)
17arr.txt	2515	17 Arrested in High-Tech Phone Fraud by Lee Catterall and William Green, Typed in by Skatepunk (1988)
1stamend	6839	Showdown over Computer 'Crime' by Brooks Boliek (August 5, 1990)
26008586.txt	22884	Excerpts from Various Issues of 2600 Magazine, by The Fixer
2600dcr1.txt	8042	Reports of 'Raid' on 2600 Washington Meeting 11/09/92
2600dcr2.txt	4525	Secret Service Role Questioned in '2600 Washington Raid' (November 10, 1992)
2600dcr3.txt	4451	Conflicting Stories in 2600 Raid (November 11, 1992)
2600dcrp.txt	6085	Hackers Allege Harassment at Mall; Pentagon City Guards Stop Meeting, Tell Computer Group to Leave. by Robert O'Harrow, Jr.
2600raid.txt	21162	A Raid on a 2600 Meeting (November 7, 1992)
adshack.hac	10821	The FBI Goes after ADS Hackers
agnts.nfo	7878	Computer Criminal Caught After 10 Months On The Run by Keith Stone (August 30th, 1994)
akronbbs.txt	12233	Police Say They Were Taking a Byte Out of Crime, by Charlene Nevada, Beacon Journal, March 22, 1993
arrest.txt	2688	Two Juveniles Arrested in BBS Extortion Case
article.txt	2377	ASCII and Ye Shall Recieve (Analysis and Criticism by the Slipped Disk)
bardbyte.txt	8836	The Bard Bytes Dust, by Charles Burress (SF Chronicle, 1986) Typed in by The Unknown User
baudy.hac	88653	The Baudy World of the Byte Bandit: A Postmodernist Interpretation of the Computer Underground (Thesis, 1990)
bawdybds.txt	10976	Bulletin Bawdy, from 'The Games Machine' July 1988
bbscase.txt	11383	Akron BBS Trial Update: Dangerous Precedents in Sysop Prosecution
bbscourt.txt	19292	About Litigation on BBSes in the USA, April, 1990
bbssting.txt	4995	Police Set Up Bulletin Board Stings by Jim Forbes of Infoworld
bcwired.asc	44554	What Does a Nobel Prize for Radio Astronomy Have to Do with Your Telephone? by Richard Rapaport
biblio	6030	Computer Hackers News Articles by Bob Krause
bmbmnul.txt	3005	Student Disciplined for Bomb Manual, from the Collinsville Herald-Journal (March 21, 1993)
boardwat.txt	46733	Board Watch Magazine: Volume 7, Issue 4, April 1993
boh-20f8.txt	102242	Bildschirmtext: A Blow Against the System (Chaos Computer Club) (November 30, 1984)
bp.txt	23907	Hackers Under Attack: Crackdown Raises Questions about New Forms of Speech, by Mark Leccese (September 7, 1990)
bucks.txt	896	Millionaire Gets Mugged In Park He Donated To
bust1lod.hac	11308	U.S. computer investigation targets Austinites
busted	6112	All About the Cherry Hill Phreak Busts
busweek.txt	6363	Does Someone Have Your Company's Number?: Phone Hackers are Tapping PBXs, Running Up Millions in Charges (February 4, 1991)
c0smos.nws	5101	The Story of the C0SM0S BBS
cable.hac	16727	The true story of John Maxfield, electronic private eye, by John Manning
captain.phk	2759	An Apple for the Captain
captaina.hac	9162	Who is Captain Zap? (Article from Washington Post)
captmidn.txt	24394	The Legend of Captain Midnight and HBO
chesire.phk	13228	Who is Cheshire Catalyst? (Article in Technology Illustrated)
cptcrnch.txt	23126	Raping Ma Bell: Captain Crunch, by Zbigniew Kindela of Hustler Magazine, February 1979
craig.fun	2176	The Urban Legend of Craig Shergold strikes in Kennewick, WA, USA, 15 Jan 1992
crime.hac	12567	Is there Computer Crime, and what are the results?
crime1.txt	2354	Computer Crime Becoming 'Less Sophisticated', Margie Wylie, May 1990 Computerworld
crimes.txt	9555	Going Undercover In The Computer Underworld by Ralph Blumenthal (The New York Times) January 26, 1993
crunchy.txt	5276	Phone Phreak Eyes Computers (More on John Draper)
crypto.txt	12550	Promising Technology Alarms Government, by Joe Abernathy of the Houston Chronicle (1992)
csuicide.txt	8534	Programmed for Life and Death, by John Markoff, New York Times, 1990
cybrnazi.txt	2379	CyberNazis Baffle German Politc (February 1994)
cybrshit.rdt	10590	Heavily Angrily Commented Transcript/Discussion about the BCS/Speech Discussion on Cyberpunks by John Markoff
cycrime1.hac	65213	Crime and Puzzlement, by John Perry Barlow (Introduction to the Electronic Frontier Foundation)
dedsheep.txt	8222	Bighorn Sheep Massacre A Mystery, By Keith Rogers, Las Vegas Review-Journal/Sun, Sunday November 24, 1991
delorean.txt	3951	The DeLorean Case
demonews.67	21689	DEMO NEWS #67, October 23-29, 1994
demonews.68	21522	DEMO NEWS #68, October 30-November 5, 1994
demonews.69	19707	DEMO NEWS #69, November 6-12, 1994
demonews.70	45893	DEMO NEWS #70, November 13-19, 1994
dibbel.hac	35066	'On Line and Out of Bounds...' By Julian Dibbell (Needs Editing)
dibbel.txt	35066	On line and Out of Bounds by Julian Dibbell

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