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{{Infobox magazine
| title = Computer Underground Digest
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| editor = Jim Thomas
| editor_title = Editor
| editor2 = Gordon Meyer
| editor_title2 = News Editor
| frequency = Weekly
| circulation =
| category = [[Online magazine]]
| company =
| publisher =
| firstdate = {{Start date|1990|3|28}}<ref name="textfiles.com">{{cite web|year=2009|url=http://www.textfiles.com/magazines/CUD/|title=Electronic Magazines: CUD (The Computer Underground Digest)|work=[[textfiles.com]]|accessdate=October 5, 2009}}</ref>
| country = USA
| language = English
| website = http://www.computer-underground-digest.org/
| issn =
| finaldate = March 12, 2000
| finalnumber = Volume 12, Issue 01
}}The '''''Computer Underground Digest''''' ('''CuD''') was a weekly online newsletter on early [[Internet]] cultural, social, and legal issues published by Gordon Meyer and Jim Thomas from March 1990 to March 2000.<ref name="fiu">{{cite web |year=2009 |url = http://www.fiu.edu/~mizrachs/cudisc.html|title = The electronic discourse of the computer underground|publisher = [[Florida International University]]|accessdate=October 5, 2009|author=Steve Mizrach |quote=Gordon Meyer, a sociologist who has since left academia but continues to be involved in the computer industry, wrote in his seminal paper The Social Organization of the Computer Underground that the "computer underground consists of actors in three roles   computer hackers, phone phreaks, and software pirates."}}</ref>

==History==
Meyer and Thomas were [[Criminal Justice]] professors at [[Northern Illinois University]], and intended the newsletter to cover topical social and legal issues generated during the rise of the [[telecommunications]] and the [[Internet]]. It existed primarily as an email [[mailing list]] and on [[USENET]], though its archives were later provided on a [[website]]. The newsletter came to prominence when it published legal commentary and updates concerning the "[[hacker (computer security)|hacker]] crackdowns" and federal indictments of [[Leonard Rose (hacker)|Leonard Rose]] and [[Craig Neidorf]] of [[Phrack]].

The CuD published commentary from its membership on subjects including the legal and social implications of the growing Internet (and later the [[World Wide Web|web]]), book reviews of topical publications, and many off-topic postings by its readership. Overtaken by the growth of online forums on the web, it ceased publication in March, 2000.

==See also==
* [[Phrack]]
* [[Cult of the Dead Cow]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://cu-digest.org/ Computer Underground Digest]
* [http://www.textfiles.com/magazines/CUD/ CuD] on [[textfiles.com]]

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