- Abene, Mark (Phiber Optik)
- American Express
- Art on the Net (art.net)
- Austin, Ron
- Avocet cyclometers
- Avocet Vertech altimeter watches
- Asilomar conference on microprocessor design
- AT&T
- Bank, David, San Jose Mercury News
- Beepers/Pagers
- Behlendorf, Brian, Wired
- Birkenstocks
- Boulder, Colorado
- Brand, Stewart
- Bronx High School
- Cellular telephone
- Cheswick, Bill, AT&T Bell Laboratories
- Christensen, Soeren, Sun Microsystems
- Clift, Neill
- Clipper phones
- Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
- Computers, Freedom, and Privacy (CFP) conference
- Computer Sciences Corporation
- Corley, Eric (Emmanuel Goldstein)
- Cow Palace
- The Cuckoo's Egg, Clifford Stoll
- Cypherpunks
- Defcon
- DePayne, Lewis
- DiCicco, Lenny
- Diffie, Whitfield
- Elam, Lile
- Electronic Communications Privacy Act
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Richard Ress, FBI Computer Crime Squad
- FBI's Quantico training center
- Federal Express
- Fu, Castor
- Fujitsu
- Gilmore, John
- Goggans, Chris
- Grateful Dead (DeadHeads)
- Heinz, Eric
- Highway 101
- Hippies
- IBM PC
- IBM's Thomas Watson Research Center
- Kapor, Mitchell
- Karin, Sid, SDSC director
- Katz, Bruce, Well owner
- Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters
- L.A. Cellular
- Las Vegas, Nevada
- Littman, Jonathan
- Lottor, Mark
- Lotus Development
- Macintosh Computer
- McCaw Cellular
- MIT Media Laboratory
- Mitnick, Kevin
- Model trains
- Monterey, California
- Morgan Stanley
- MSB Associates
- National Center for Supercomputer Applications (NCSA)
- National Security Agency (NSA)
- Negroponte, Nicholas
- New York Times
- Novatel
- Oki
- Pan American Cellular
- Password cracking
- Petersen, Justin Tanner (Eric, Agent Steal)
- Phrack
- Playboy
- Poulsen, Kevin
- Qualcomm
- RadioMail terminal
- Reno Airport
- Rolling Stone Magazine
- San Francisco club scene
- Santana, Carlos
- Seattle, Washington
- sendmail
- Ski Patrol
- Sprint
- Stoll, Clifford (pictures)
- Sun Microsystems
- SunSoft
- Tahoe Donner cross-country center
- Toshiba T4400
- Turner Broadcasting
- University of Southern California
- University of Washington
- US West
- Vanguard conference
- VMS
- Whole Earth Catalog
- Whole Earth Review
- Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (Xerox PARC)
- Young, Neil
- Ziese, Kevin, Air Force Information Warfare Center