Carolyn P. Meinel (born 1946) is notable for being one of the targets in the hacking scene during the 1990s.

Biography

In 1983, Meinel received an

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from the

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. Her father is Aden Meinel and mother is

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. Meinel married her first husband, Howard

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, in 1967 and divorced in 1981. Meinel has four daughters, one of whom is

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. In August 1975, Meinel co-founded (with her then-husband,

) the L5 Society, since merged into the

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, and was its president for several years. In 1996, Meinel was among the targets of a high-profile email bomber known as "Unamailer" or "johnny xchaotic". Some security experts, such as Brian Martin of

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, have criticized her writings, claiming that they are inaccurate and generally misrepresent hacking.https://web.archive.org/web/20161001180645/https://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/shame/teach.html Carolyn Meinel: The Teacher

Publications

Books

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Articles

*"For Love of a Gun," the history, technologies of electromagnetic guns, IEEE Spectrum, July, 2007, pp. 40 46. * "How Hackers Break in and How they Are Caught," Scientific American, Oct. 1998, * "How the West Was Won… or, The L-5 Society Defeated the Moon Treaty," Spacefaring Gazette, Vol. 10, No. 3, June/July 1994, pp. 1, 8. *(Many other articles)

Notes

External links

Happy Hacker - Carolyn Meinel's site
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