Katie Hafner
Hafner's reporting helped establish a documentary record of early network-intrusion cases and hacker culture for a general readership.
Katie Hafner is a journalist and author. With John Markoff, she wrote Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier, first published in 1991.
Documenting an emerging culture
The book followed several computer-intrusion cases and placed them in the technological and social context of the 1980s. It remains an important contemporary source for the period's public understanding of hackers and network security.
Timeline
- 1991Publishes Cyberpunk with John Markoff.
- 1995A revised edition of Cyberpunk is published.
Katie Hafner
- Type
- Person
- Era
- 1991-Present
- Known for
- Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier; Internet-history writing; Technology journalism
- Tags
- author, journalism, hacker-culture, internet-history, books
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