Steal this book! F@&! the System! Do those phrases bring back any memories? For me, they conjure up images of Chicago’s Old Towne & New York’s Greenwich Village in the late '60s and early '70s. And that seems like a fitting start for a blog entry on computer security because…well, it’s a long story.
In the 1960s, some rather interesting people gained more than a little attention based on their innate ability to understand how things work and their desire to use that knowledge to help rebel against the perceived “authority system” of the day. One group of such people, the Youth International Party, or yippies as they were more commonly known, was frequently in the news. They were self-proclaimed representatives of the youth of the nation and were prominent activists during...
