to cuts in corporate security spending. Abene made his acting début as "The Inside Man" in the fiction film Urchin, completed in 2006 and released in the US in February 2007, in which other hacker notables such as Dave Buchwald and Emmanuel Goldstein can be seen. In 2009, he founded TraceVector, an intrusion detection firm that makes use of supercomputing and data analytics. He currently resides in Silicon Valley. References Bibliography The Rise and Fall of Information Security in the Western World. Speech by Mark Abene, Hack in the Box security conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2007. CNET Q&A: Mark Abene, from 'Phiber Optik' to security guru. New York Software Industry Association. Goldstein, Emmanuel (2001). Freedom Downtime, opening sequence. Savage, Annaliza (September 1995). Notes from the underground — Phiber Optik goes directly to jail. .net Issue 10. Quittner, Joshua (January 23, 1995). Hacker Homecoming. TIME. Dibbell, Julian (January 12, 1994). Prisoner: Phiber Optik Goes Directly to Jail. The Village Voice Sterling, Bruce (January 1994). The Hacker Crackdown — Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier. . From Project Gutenberg. Goldstein, Emmanuel (November 10, 1993). Interview with Phiber Optik. Off the Hook radio show. (Online archive) Electronic Frontier Foundation (July 9, 1992). Federal hacking indictments issued against five in New York City. Retrieved September 4, 2004 Newsbytes (July 9, 1992). New York Computer Crime Indictments. Retrieved September 11, 2004. Grand jury, United States District Court Southern District of New York (1992). Indictment of Julio Fernandez, John Lee, Mark Abene, Elias Ladopoulos, Paul Stira. (Copy from Computer underground Digest, 4:31). All Circuits are Busy Now: The 1990 AT&T Long Distance Network Collapse. External links The History of MOD modbook1.txt — "The History of MOD: Book One: The Originals" modbook2.txt — "The History of MOD: Book Two: Creative Mindz" modbook3.txt — "The Book of MOD: Part Three: A Kick in the Groin" modbook4.txt — "The Book of MOD: Part Four: End of '90-'1991" modbook5.txt — "The Book of MOD: Part 5: Who are They And Where Did They Come From? (Summer 1991)" Phiber Optik Goes to Prison — Article in Wired by Julian Dibbell Off the Hook shows (available as MP3 files) 1991-03-13, "Phiber Optik's" first appearance on the show. . 1993-11-03, announcement of Mark Abene's sentence. No recording exists. . 1993-11-10, the first show following the sentencing, Phiber Optik in the studio. . 1994-01-05, last show before Phiber Optik's going to prison. .