The personal computer changes that. There are no rebels on the infobahn. We won't get real rebels on the infobahn until computers become an integral part of mainstream life, and we get people on board who have nothing to lose mixing up with people who have everything to lose. When we have digital telephones, digital television, and digital cash. Then we'll find out what a 'cybergang' really is.
ICE are computer programs that defend corporate data from netrunners .
The netrunners are going up against the evil or impersonally huge corporations. I've played a lot of these games, and I've yet to see someone want to play a corporate bureaucrat. We get enough of that in real life. In March of 1997, someone cracked into the NASA web site and warned that unless certain fellow crackers were set free, they would begin a cyber-terror campaign within thirty days. The campaign never started, as far as I know, but this kind of threat is a step up from replacing pictures of John Glenn with photos of women having sex with goats.