“You wanted to know who I am Zero Cool? Well, let me explain the New World Order. Governments and corporations need people like you and me. We are samurai… the keyboard cowboys… and all those other people out there who have no idea what’s going on, are the cattle…. Moo...” (Hackers, 52 min). This quote emphasizes the theme of the book I’ve read, Trouble and Her Friends, by Melissa Scott. Sometimes in life, you …showed first 75 words of 590 total…

…showed last 75 words of 590 total…break and entry with a screwdriver and a hack with a computer are legally the same, the system breaks down somewhere, and the government need to pick up the slack (Cowgirls line 14-15). To trust the government is one thing, but as you can see in this book, it all starts with some Internet censorship acts, and leads up to something like the Evans-Tindale Act, which breaks down all online freedom as wee know it.