Why?

• Direct result of IRC channel takeovers & retaliation
• To see if they could do it
• Because they can do it
• Next time it may not be teenagers, and it may happen at a less opportune time

• IRC on Your Dime, CIAC Document 2318

• Hackers: Crime in the Digital Sublime
  Dr. Paul A. Taylor, (Routledge, ISBN 0-415-18072-4)
• Masters of Deception: The Gang that Ruled Cyberspace
  Michelle Slatalla and Joshua Quittner (HarperPerennial, ISBN 0-06-017030-1)
• Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier
  Suelette Dreyfus (Mandarin [Reed Books Australia], ISBN 1-86330-595-5)
• @ Large: The Strange Case of the World's Biggest Internet Invasion
  Charles C. Mann & David H. Freedman, (Simon & Schuster Trade,0-684-82464-7)
  [U.S. News 06/02/97: Adaptations from "At Large," a cracker's escapades]

• Remembering the Net crash of '88 - Cornell student KO'd fledgling Internet with replicating 'worm', by Bob Sullivan, MSNBC, November 2, 1988
• We're no more secure a decade later -- Analysis: A UNIX administrator warns the Net's still vulnerable, by Jeff Francis, MSNBC, November 2, 1998

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