Discourses of danger and the computer hacker

Information Society

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 361-374

  Halbert, Debora ^a  

^a OTTERBEIN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hackers; Identity; Information security

Indexed keywords

EID: 21944448888     PISSN: 01972243     EISSN: 10876537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/019722497129061     Document Type: Article

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