Underground by Suelette Dreyfus: Hackers, Crackers, and Feds (Oh My!)

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So What’s It About?
“Underground” by Suelette Dreyfus is a great historical fiction narrative detailing the rise and fall of some crackers and phreakers and their opponents: phone company employees, system administrators, and Feds. It takes place between 1988 and 1994, when multi-user BBSes were starting to pop up and a telephone [...]

Starting From Scratch

I believe that everyone hates the feeling of starting from scratch, regardless of age or experience. This will cause people who should know better to make bad decisions, even misleading people who are conscious of the effect.
In my mental model of knowledge, I split skills between three major mastery levels:

Those we can use professionally. I [...]