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                            EFF-AUSTIN PUBLIC FORUM
 
Noted science fiction writer and techno-journalist Bruce Sterling will discuss
and sign copies of his latest nonfiction work, _The Hacker Crackdown: Law and
Disrder on the Electronic Frontier_.
 
                         Thursday, October 29, 7:30 pm
                            Al Kiva Room (EDB-104)
                       The University of Texas at Austin
                               Speedway @ MLK
 
After 5:00 pm, visitors may park in UT parking spaces that are not marked
F-99 or handicapped and in adjacent State of Texas parking lots.  Bruce will
be introduced by Cliff Figallo, former director of the WELL and recently
named director of EFF-Cambridge.  Copies of _The Hacker Crackdown_ 
will be available at the meeting.  
 
 
WHAT IS THE HACKER CRACKDOWN?
 
"A thoughtful report on the laws and rights being defined on the virtual
frontier of cyberspace...  Enjoyable, informative, and (as the first
mainstream treatment of the subject) potentially important book...  Sterling
is a fine and knowledgeable guide to this strange new world."
                                                           --Kirkus
 
"In jazzy New Journalism prose, sounding like Tom Wolfe reporting on a
gunfight at the Cybernetic Corral, Sterling makes readers feel at home with
the hackers, marshals, rebels and bureaucrats of the electronic frontier."
                                                         --Publishers Weekly
 
 
WHAT IS EFF-AUSTIN?
 
We are a group of local computer and network users, programmers, and others.
We are the first (and only) local chapter of the Electronic Frontier
Foundation, the national organization founded by Mitch Kapor, John Barlow,
John Gilmore, and Steve Wozniak.
 
EFF-Austin currently sponsors and organizes two types of meetings.  Cyberdawgs
are informal networking mixers.  They do not have a rigid structure and are
designed for people to mix, mingle, and have fun.  Public Forums are formal
presentations designed to educate the audience about social and legal issues
facing the electronic community.
 
For membership (and other) information on EFF-Austin, send Internet e-mail to
eff-austin@tic.com.
 
For further information about the Public Forum : The Hacker Crackdown, please
contact susan.cisco@utxvm.cc.utexas.edu.