The Cybergypsies

The Cybergypsies Love, Life and Travels on the Electronic Frontier

Paperback (04 May 1999)

Not available for sale

Includes delivery to the United States

Out of stock

This service is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Publisher's Synopsis

THE CYBERGYPSIES describes one man's exploration of cyberspace over many years and the folk he meets on the Net, the cybergypsies: virus writers, hackers, witches, sex-peddlars, conmen, net vamps, randy paratroopers posing as girls; the A-bomb blueprints he was offered for sale. He recounts with startling honesty how he nearly lost everything because of his obsession with the Net and how the Net can be as dangerous and destructive as any drug addiction. However, the author also shows how the Internet can be used for positive aims, as he describes how he fought for human rights with desperate appeals for the Kurdish refugees in the wake of the Gulf War and justice for Bhopal's gas victims in campaigns involving Jeffrey Archer and Don McCullin.

Book information

ISBN: 9780684819297
Publisher: Scribner
Imprint: Scribner
Pub date:
DEWEY: 302.23
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 416
Weight: -1g
Height: 233mm
Width: 152mm