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- English
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The Cybergypsies
About this book
THE CYBERGYPSIES describes one man's exploration of cyberspace over many years and the folk he meets on the Net, the cybergypsies: virus writers, hackers, witches, sex-peddlars, conmen, net vamps, randy paratroopers posing as girls; the A-bomb blueprints he was offered for sale. He recounts with startling honesty how he nearly lost everything because of his obsession with the Net and how the Net can be as dangerous and destructive as any drug addiction. However, the author also shows how the Internet can be used for positive aims, as he describes how he fought for human rights with desperate appeals for the Kurdish refugees in the wake of the Gulf War and justice for Bhopal's gas victims in campaigns involving Jeffrey Archer and Don McCullin.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Dedication
- Chapter 1: Satanbug
- Chapter 2: The Oklahoma Institute of Virus Research
- Chapter 3: Alone in the cybernight
- Chapter 4: Slasha
- Chapter 5: Castle Perilous
- Chapter 6: Jamrach & Sons
- Chapter 7: Lorelei
- Chapter 8: Immortals only
- Chapter 9: Great Tew
- Chapter 10: The Rollright Stones
- Chapter 11: Old Mother Shipton
- Chapter 12: In a Sussex hedgerow
- Chapter 13: 130.43.43.43
- Chapter 14: The language of birds
- Chapter 15: Sogonr appieanr
- Chapter 16: Rain rain go away
- Chapter 17: Raga Rageshri
- Chapter 18: A wicked stepdaughter
- Chapter 19: Aphrodite foods and supplies
- Chapter 20: The Monastery of Apostolos Andreas
- Chapter 21: Aftermath
- Chapter 22: Hoyo de Monterrey
- Chapter 23: Windowsills
- Chapter 24: Calypso gains immortality
- Chapter 25: War in cyberspace (nothing to do with Geno of course)
- Chapter 26: Gypsy Caravanserai (Cabbalist’s story)
- Chapter 27: On the Ripper trail
- Chapter 28: Application to join NuKE
- Chapter 29: The art of death
- Chapter 30: Hole in the wall
- Chapter 31: Hacker’s Chicken
- Chapter 32: Gypsy Caravanserai (Morgan’s story)
- Chapter 33: Jarly lets go
- Chapter 34: Losing it
- Chapter 35: Next year in Jerusalem
- Chapter 36: Gypsy Caravanserai (Chorley’s story)
- Chapter 37: Missing
- Chapter 38: The immortals meet on Olympus
- Chapter 39: Barbarella
- Chapter 40: A lipsdropped conversation
- Chapter 41: The death of Hagstor
- Chapter 42: Strange cries before dawn
- Chapter 43: Dreamdancing
- Chapter 44: Hacking the Coconet
- Chapter 45: Into the Vortex
- Chapter 46: Through the cyberverse
- Chapter 47: A picnic in Narnia
- Chapter 48: Cyri
- Chapter 49: Hindustani by candlelight
- Chapter 50: Hackers vs hacks
- Chapter 51: Found on Nasty Ned’s hard disk
- Chapter 52: Nasty Ned the Net Nark
- Chapter 53: A proposal of marriages
- Chapter 54: Famous in Famagusta
- Chapter 55: Pantisocracy with field voles
- Chapter 56: A call from Anita
- Chapter 57: A tale of two cities
- Chapter 58: Almond blossom in Kurdistan
- Chapter 59: Eye witness
- Chapter 60: Sipple of Arabia
- Chapter 61: Memorial to the dead of Balisan
- Chapter 62: Chaos
- Chapter 63: A chat with Morgan on Shades
- Chapter 64: Barefoot and starving
- Chapter 65: The Flying Teapot
- Chapter 66: Nostrajarlius
- Chapter 67: Lost cluster
- Chapter 68: A chat with Dreamdancer on Shades
- Chapter 69: The simple truth
- Chapter 70: An affair of the heart
- Chapter 71: Prophecies
- Chapter 72: Madoc
- Chapter 73: Lucifer’s crime
- Chapter 74: The lament of Gawain
- Chapter 75: The death of Micronet
- Chapter 76: Dear Jeffrey Archer
- Chapter 77: More massacres
- Chapter 78: Ambushed by Kurds (and Bear)
- Chapter 79: Why Krug champagne?
- Chapter 80: A song for Jeffrey Archer
- Chapter 81: Goran
- Chapter 82: Cry (a song by Rzgar Goran for Jeffrey Archer)
- Chapter 83: The Butterfly Effect
- Chapter 84: Gliomach’s game
- Chapter 85: Jarly makes good
- Chapter 86: Silk Cunt
- Chapter 87: Mailbomber vs nailbomber
- Chapter 88: Complaint to the managing director
- Chapter 89: A brief note on viruses
- Chapter 90: Lunch with Ian Paisley, Jr
- Chapter 91: Moderation
- Chapter 92: Sacred relics
- Chapter 93: Golden Buddha
- Chapter 94: Headlong
- Chapter 95: Lilith (on wives)
- Chapter 96: Luna waxing (positively gibbous)
- Chapter 97: The Cyber Sutra
- Chapter 98: C. elegans
- Chapter 99: The full Luna
- Chapter 100: Droid
- Chapter 101: Luna waning
- Chapter 102: Crescent Luna (the fields of Lethe)
- Chapter 103: Eve in the garden
- Chapter 104: The new Luna
- Chapter 105: Sea State 6
- Chapter 106: Grabbing the girl
- Chapter 107: The barber of Fakenham
- Chapter 108: Peacemarchers
- Chapter 109: No-incidence
- Chapter 110: The week of the five weirdnesses
- Chapter 111: Ancestral voices
- Chapter 112: Zek and Misha
- Chapter 113: Undress rehearsal
- Chapter 114: Bear-wallah Sutra
- Chapter 115: Kissimmee quick
- Chapter 116: Casting Madison
- Chapter 117: The yoga of two
- Chapter 118: All in the mind
- Chapter 119: Remember Venice
- Chapter 120: Descent to the underworld
- Chapter 121: Immortality for sale
- Chapter 122: Threat to sue all internet users
- Chapter 123: Ostriches and the moon
- Chapter 124: Le Palais Ideal
- Chapter 125: Sushi in Stockholm
- Chapter 126: Golden eagles
- Chapter 127: Plan 9
- Chapter 128: Déjà vu
- Chapter 129: The other half
- Chapter 130: A spy in Thorp
- Chapter 131: Palden Gyatso
- Chapter 132: For best results
- Chapter 133: Conversation with Don McCullin – part I
- Chapter 134: Ecstasy and agony in squeaky voices
- Chapter 135: Conversation with Don – part II
- Chapter 136: Sathyu
- Chapter 137: Sathyu’s Orissan chicken
- Chapter 138: Leaves & Birds (a poem for Bhopal by Raf Atul Hussaini)
- Chapter 139: Payload
- Chapter 140: The hunters
- Chapter 141: Jarly pays BT back
- Chapter 142: Lunacy by the river
- Chapter 143: Q95 is dead
- Chapter 144: Hard Knot
- Chapter 145: Gotcha
- Chapter 146: MacGillicuddy’s Reeks
- Chapter 147: Tralee
- Chapter 148: Dunquin
- Chapter 149: Gypsy Caravanserai (Alain’s story)
- Chapter 150: Slumming it
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- Copyright