Autumn:  The Autumn 1992 cover had a few things going on, nearly all of which related to injustice in one form or another.

A judge's hand is seen about to pound his gavel, apparently directly into a Touch-Tone phone that's off the hook.

The inscription "Get Up Stand Up" is scrawled on the side of the desk, a reference to the famous Peter Tosh song of defiance.  However, it could also be read as a command to those in the courtroom to obey and submit.

Another hand is seen being raised in response, or in questioning, or in a Roman salute.

A clock reads 9:55 or "five to ten," a prison sentence many hackers were being threatened with.

Another dial is divided into four sections with an arrow pointing straight down:

  • Kafka, a reference to Franz Kafka, the famous writer who was known for his stories of social-bureaucratic powers that squashed the individual.
  • Panic, which could be interpreted literally as panic, something many in the hacker world were actually doing as government powers increased, or as Milan Panić, the American millionaire who had somehow become Prime Minister of Yugoslavia, a country that was beginning to face a series of increasingly brutal wars.
  • Nicolae, a reference to Nicolae Ceaușescu, the late repressive leader of Romania, whose style of governing and surveilling was at risk of returning in a number of places.
  • The dialing code +49 381, which referred to the city of Rostock in Germany, which was where violent mob attacks against migrants were taking place not long after the reunification of the country.

The mini-cover shows a sunglass-wearing kid holding up a badge, possibly one he had just printed - our answer to the power-abusing authorities we were all too familiar with.

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