Summer:  The Summer 1990 cover shows a busy street scene, where protesters are confronting a tank, very much in the style of the Tiananmen Square scene one year earlier.

Driving the tank is a man with a chef's hat, a clear reference to Assistant United States Attorney William J. Cook, who led the prosecution against Phrack publisher Craig Neidorf.

The tank has the words "Born Criminals" written on it.  Whether that's referring to the people who drive this tank or the people the tank is targeting remains unclear.

The tank seems to be guarding a locked door marked with the letters "INT."  The first few letters are blocked, but it could easily represent a Sprint building housing various secrets of interest to hackers.

We also see a trio of kids on skateboards, riding freely in the distance.  This symbolized hope and the future, as well as paralleling the demonization of skateboarders in the eyes of society, who were often persecuted in similar ways as hackers.

The bus leaving the scene symbolized the founding of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (established as a direct result of the raids that started the year) and their perceived abandoning of their hacker connections once they began operations.

As one of the EFF founders was also a Grateful Dead lyricist, the quote on the bus reading "All a friend can say is ain't it a shame" seemed appropriate.

The mini-cover is a symbol that was known to evangelical anti-rock crusaders as a "secret Satanic symbol."  It really wasn't, but we wanted to stir things up a bit.