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The Heroic Hacker: Legends of the Computer Age
Erik Brunvand
Department of Computer Science
University of Utah, SLC, Utah 84112
elb@cs.utah.edu, www.cs.utah.edu/~elb
Abstract:
The computer hacker has been depicted in the popular press as a
socially maladjusted teenager whose goal is to wreak malicious havoc
on unsuspecting computer users. In the culture of the computer
programmer however, the hacker takes on a far different aspect. The
true hacker is raised to heroic status with tales of amazing feats
circulated through computer networks in the form of stories and
legends. In this paper I discuss the persona of the true hacker,
illustrated using hacker legends collected from the Internet.
Erik Brunvand
Tue Oct 15 13:40:41 MDT 1996