Guest Blog: Steve Steinberg aka Frank Drake

A warm thanks to Ms. Jenn Shreve for her illuminating posts to the guestblog! We look forward to following Jenn's surreal journeys at her LiveJournal. Our next guest blogger is another long-time bOING bOING co-conspirator and one of my best friends and mentors. I first met Steve Steinberg more than a decade ago when he sat-in on a technology journalism course taught by NY Times reporter John Markoff at UC Berkeley. Little did I realize when we first talked that Steve Steinberg was actually "Frank Drake," the legendary Legion of Doom hacker who was a key source for Markoff and Katie Hafner's book Cyberpunk. Steve was also the creator of WORM and Intertek, the seminal hacker 'zines from which Wired borrowed several section ideas, including Hype List and Reality Check. In fact, our very first conversation oddly ended with Steve asking me to write the next Reality Check column for Wired in his stead. So I have Steve to thank (and you have Steve to blame) for kick-starting my career. Steve, the guestblog is yours.
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