The Hacker Bible is a publication of the

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organization

Chaos Computer Club The Chaos Computer Club (CCC) is Europe's largest association of Hacker (computer security), hackers with 7,700 registered members. Founded in 1981, the association is incorporated as an ''eingetragener Verein'' in Germany, with local chapters ...

(CCC). It has been published in two editions to date, 1985 and 1988. Both were edited by

Wau Holland Herwart Holland-Moritz, known as Wau Holland, (20 December 1951 – 29 July 2001) was a German computer security activist and journalist who in 1981 cofounded the Chaos Computer Club (CCC), one of the world's oldest hacking clubs. He found ...

and published on the Grüne Kraft press.

Overview

The Hacker Bible is a compendium of

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s and stories from the hacker scene, for example the instruction guide to the

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named “Data-loo”(Germ.:Datenklo). Furthermore, it offers manuals and other technical explanations. The first edition appeared in 1985 with the subtitle “Cable salad is good for you" ("Kabelsalat ist gesund”) and had sold 25,000 copies by mid-1988. The second edition in 1988 was given the additional name “The New Testament”. The comic images on the cover sleeve are a creation of German comic artists Mali Beinhorn and Werner Büsch from the comic workshop Büsch-Beinhorn. The production and distribution of the Hacker Bible was discontinued by 1990. Since 1999, the CCC has offered a scanned and full-text version online (in German) with further materials such as texts from Peter Glaser, a documentation on Karl Koch and works from

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from the Chaos-CD.

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References

External links

Hackerbibel Archive 1Website & Database Hacking
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