# Links

Organizations

The Electronic Frontier Foundation
eff.org
Steve Jackson Games vs. the Secret Service

freeculture.org

Hacks, Phreaks, Exploits

Homograph Attack
allows an attacker to spoof a domain name through the use of extended character sets.

van Eck Phreaking (wikipedia)

ResExcellence
macosx hacking

Writing

McKenzie Wark
Author of the Hacker Manifesto
Excerpts
Edited Version

Julian Dibbell

Hackers

Cap'n Crunch

phrack
classic phreaking/hacking zine

2600 Magazine
another classic phreaking/hacking zine.
  > HOPE (Hacker On Planet Earth) Conference

Core Wars
Virus code combat

Chaos Computer Club

DefCon

WhatTheHack

artofhacking.com

textfiles.com

Intellectual Property

Lawrence Lessig's Blog
Lawrence Lessig is a professor at stanfard law school who writes extensively on digital culture, particularly in intellectual property. He's the originator of the Creative Commons License, an alternative to the existing copyright/patent structure.

Stanford Law School Center for the Internet and Society
Stanford law professors and students taking on internet law cases.

groklaw.net
Pamela Jones' blog, particularly dedicated to following issues in open-source and open-standards software, as well as Google Print and related projects.

The Economist 10/20/05: Patents

legaltorrents.com, Creative-Commons Licensed Music, Video, Games, Writing, etc.

http://www.copyright.gov/

digitalconsumer.org

Privacy

Washington Post 10/24/05: FBI Papers Indicate Intelligence Violations

Open Source / Free Software

The Free Software Foundation, one of the longest-standing advocacy groups for the free software movement.

Reverse-engineering, free speech, and thought-crimes

DeCSS is homebrewed code to allow DVD's to be played on Linux. This innocuous hobbyist project ignited a firestorm of litigation, legislation and continuing controversy. The implications of these court battles and the DMCA are broad, from small throught-crimes to the outcome of the 2004 presidential election.