This EGM² review introduces Return Fire as a standout action–strategy title for the 3DO, combining fast-paced vehicle combat with clear Capture the Flag objectives and an intuitive overhead perspective. Read more →

Los Angeles Times investigation of fugitive hacker and government informant Justin Petersen, with discussion of Kevin Mitnick and Lewis De Payne. Read more →

Los Angeles Times profile of fugitive hacker Kevin Mitnick and the allegations, history, and mythology surrounding him in 1994. Read more →

John Markoff’s New York Times profile portrays Mitnick as a fugitive “computer programmer run amok,” detailing his cellular-phone software thefts, his teenage NORAD intrusion claim, and a quote from a former FBI agent calling him overdue for arrest — the piece Mitnick later said sent his public myth “into overdrive.” Read more →

Katie Hafner and John Markoff’s account of three early computer-underground communities, including the Los Angeles scene around Kevin Mitnick. Read more →

UPI report on Lenny DiCicco’s guilty plea and probation sentence for giving Kevin Mitnick unauthorized computer access that let him steal software from Digital Equipment Corporation. Read more →

Los Angeles Times profile by John Johnson that helped cement Kevin Mitnick’s early public image as a dangerous “electronic terrorist,” describing his intense psychological attachment to computers following his first hacking-related arrests. Read more →

Dun and Bradstreet: Do They Know Something We Don’t, and Yet More Phun with UNIX, two computer-culture pieces on corporate dial-up systems and UNIX internals, from TAP’s final period. Read more →

Your Rights as a Phone Phreak by Fred Steinbeck, a plain-language legal explainer on federal wiretap law and how phone companies legally track toll fraud without a warrant. Read more →

1984, Join the Party of Your Choice! by Cheshire Catalyst, announcing an upcoming sci-fi convention, a computer-game exhibit, and a tip on scanning local phone exchanges for interesting lines. Read more →

Telecom ‘83 - Techno Toyland by Cheshire Catalyst, a trade-show report from the ITU’s massive international telecommunications exposition in Geneva. Read more →

The Great Fire of ‘83 by Cheshire Catalyst, recounting a real burglary and attempted arson at editor Tom Edison’s apartment/TAP office, plus a shift to plain-envelope mailing and an ISBN for the newsletter. Read more →

Opens a series on making lock-opening tools at home from automotive feeler-gauge spring steel, covering tension-wrench shaping and heat-tempering, plus how a warded padlock’s internal mechanism works. Read more →

12th Anniversary Issue: The Credit Card Code - 1983 by Cheshire Catalyst, tracking Bell’s shift to ‘Calling Card’ terminology and numbering, plus reader debate over an ATM-fraud publication. Read more →

Bell System Rate Steps as Forbidden Knowledge by Cheshire Catalyst, phone billing-distance trivia and a BASIC mileage program, plus a Touch-Tone hardware modification note. Read more →