Hacker Bible
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The Hacker Bible is a publication of the German hacker organization Chaos Computer Club (CCC).[1][2] It has been published in three editions to date, 1985, 1988, and 2024.[3][4] The first two were edited by Wau Holland and published on the Grüne Kraft press. The third edition was published by the Chaos Computer Club and released by Katapult Verlag.[5]
Overview
The Hacker Bible is a compendium of documents and stories from the hacker scene, for example the instruction guide to the acoustic coupler named “Data-loo”(Germ.:Datenklo).[6][7] Furthermore, it offers manuals and other technical explanations.[8][9]
The first edition appeared in 1985 with the subtitle “Cable salad is good for you" ("Kabelsalat ist gesund”)[10] and had sold 25,000 copies by mid-1988.[11] The second edition in 1988 was given the additional name “The New Testament”.[12]
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.[13] 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 Tron from the Chaos-CD.
Bibliography
- Holland, Wau (1985), Die Hackerbibel – "Kabelsalat ist gesund", Werner Pieper, ISBN 3922708986.
- Holland, Wau (1985), Die Hackerbibel – "Das neue Testament", Werner Pieper, ISBN 3925817247.
- Die Hackerbibel 3, Chaos Computer Club, 2024, ISBN 9783948923822