The Computer Underground
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Department of Sociology
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, IL 60115
(5 March, 1990)
THE BAUDY WORLD OF THE BYTE BANDIT:
A POSTMODERNIST INTERPRETATION OF THE COMPUTER UNDERGROUND
An earlier version of this paper was presented at the America ....
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.... stigmatize behaviors as inappropriate. "Moral crusades" that lead to
definitions of criminalized deviance tend to reduce the meanings of
polysemic acts to unidimensional ones that limit understanding of both the
nature of the acts and their broader relationship to the culture in which
they occur. This has occured with the criminalization of computer
phreaking and hacking. In this paper, we examine the computer underground
as a cultural, rather than a deviant, phe- nomenon. ....
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