Who are these people?

"Spotlight on three student hackers: UW springs a hacker sub-culture"

Interesting reading about hacker culture and attacks

• @ 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"]
• Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier
  Suelette Dreyfus (Mandarin [Reed Books Australia], ISBN 1-86330-595-5)
• Masters of Deception: The Gang that Ruled Cyberspace
  Michelle Slatalla and Joshua Quittner (HarperPerennial, ISBN 0-06-017030-1)
• The Fugitive Game
  Jonathan Littman (Little, Brown & Company, ISBN 0-316-52858-7)
• An Analysis Of Security Incidents On The Internet: 1989 - 1995, by John D. Howard, April 7, 1997

• Vipers In the Sandbox -- Used to Be, the Internet Was a Safe Place to Play
• Remembering the Net crash of '88 - Cornell student KO'd fledgling Internet with replicating 'worm' (MSNBC)

• The Hacker Crackdown, by Bruce Sterling
• Phrack magazine has some articles of interest. An index of philes from issues 1-50 can be found in Phrack 51-14. (See also: their Links We Dig: Hacker Related Links)
• Richard Thieme's Hacking Culture and the Passion for Knowledge

• 27/03/99 - NZ link as FBI acts against teenage hackers
• Jenott cleared of spying -- Guilty of lesser charges, GI gets 3 years
• FBI mounts big crackdown on small-town teens (ZDNN)
• Israeli nabbed in Pentagon hack (CNET News.com)
• Hackers attack NASA, Navy... and the UW! (CNET News.com)
• DOJ charges youth in hack attacks (CNET News.com)
• Hackers "claim" Pentagon attack (CNET News.com)
• Computer security problems growing (CNET News.com)