Each source was mentioned on the Mitnick E-mail list sponsored by 2600 magazine or culled from links in such stories. Naturally, the articles tend to focus on Mitnick or other celebrated hacking cases. For a current and more complete list of articles try searching with given key words in the search feature of news carriers. Scholarly Works . There is a dirth of quality scholarship concerning computer crime- especially hacking.
Many hackers draw important conclusions about their activites based on works of fiction.
Evidence of this is the frequent use of the names of fictional characters as handles or aliases. More fundamentally, many young hackers receive their first introduction to hacking through stories about hacking. This initial impetus may have far reaching consequences on the psyche of hackers. Technical Sources . This information is as essoteric as my reading habits and is by no means exhaustive.