The hacker accounts in this article are designed to give the reader an understanding of the types of things being said about hackers. What is more important, however, is how these narratives are used to support a specific notion of property ownership and government secrecy. In making this argument, this article traces the development of the narrative about the hacker from harmless computer nerd to terrorist.
Debora Halbert. Discourses of Danger and the Computer Hacker. The Information Society, 13(4):361–374, December 1997. doi:10.1080/019722497129061.
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title = {Discourses of {{Danger}} and the {{Computer Hacker}}},
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