Legendary psychosubversive hacker Susy Thunder, decades later

Claire L. Evans tracked down 1980s hacker, phreaker and psychosubversive Susy Thunder, who found fame when it was real and then disappeared into America' ambient normalcy. As Gibsonian as her legend is, it hardly does justice to the reality.

Weekdays, she worked the switchboard at an answering service, which gave her access to unlisted phone numbers and plugged her into the day-to-day whereabouts of musicians, record company executives, and managers ("A groupie's goldmine," she told the tabloid).