Volume IX / Published

The Hacker

How America Lost Control of the Systems It Invented

What happens to a technological civilization when the law governing access also governs how its people may learn where their systems fail?

Published volume

Book cover for Causality and Attraction Volume IX.

Primary Function

Computer law, security, and the authorization boundary

Volume IX examines what happened when American computer law placed criminal force around an unstable boundary called authorization. It traces the CFAA, exemplary prosecutions, infrastructure seizure, domestic surveillance, the migration of security knowledge beyond the United States, and a proposed domestic red-team enclosure that separates exploration from completed harm.

Read this volume for its historical and structural inquiry from the Cold War authorization boundary through the conditions required for security research to return safely to the domestic enclosure.

Inside This Volume

The structures carried forward.

  1. 01

    Authorization as a legal and computational enclosure

  2. 02

    The distinction among exploration, acquisition, fraud, destruction, and espionage

  3. 03

    How prosecution and surveillance reshape domestic technical learning

  4. 04

    The foreign hacker as the exterior produced by an American boundary

  5. 05

    Security as organized knowledge of insecurity

  6. 06

    A domestic red-team enclosure and the return of the computer

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