SOLVED. scifi short story; computer hacker punishment [s]

[Justanotherbiblophile]

SOLVED: "The Perfect Fit" (info) by Isaac Asimov (RIO)

Short story(?) about a computer hacker who got caught in the future. They wiped/conditioned him so that he can't stand to use computers for (temporarily? for a year?), and he has to beg other people to access stuff for him - he can't even pay for anything, since there is no non-digital money - but he's been given a large bank account.

Also, this may be by Orson Scott Card. But I wouldn't put any money on it.

[Andy]

I think this is Asimov "The Perfect Fit"

[Justanotherbiblophile]

Hmm, first review didn't look good at all:

"He referred to a 3-dimensional chess game which was a game with 8 chessboards stacked upon each other, making the playing area cubic rather than square."

But this snippet does look a lot better:

"In a thoroughly computerized society, a man who attempts a computerized crime is made to suffer a very fitting punishment."

I guess I'll toss it under possibly solved for now.

[Andy]

Looks like the whole story is online at the site of the magazine that originally published it http://www.edn.com/electronics-news/4...

[Justanotherbiblophile]

Yup, that was it.

Just curious, what did you search with to find it? I did some google searches once I got that name, but didn't come up with it...

[Andy]

I had read the story and remembered that it was by Asimov, and had a suspicion that it was in the collection "Winds of Change," so I could find the title pretty easily. Seaching for "Perfect Fit" and Asimov brings up the edn link on the first page of google results.

[Justanotherbiblophile]

Weird. That shows up in my current google searches.

Checked my history, but it wasn't showing accurate things for (most of) my searches.

I'd, however, only gotten these two links:

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~johnlo...
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValle...

[Kate]

The Winds of Change and Other Stories, for the link to the anthology containing "A Perfect Fit."

[Joseph]

Thanks for finding this story. I joined this website when I saw your posting about The Perfect Fit. I am an avid Asimov fan and own this particular collection, but I have not read it in years. I thought of this story while having a discussion on the punishment of a hacker who exposed the perpetrators of a rape crime (http://hackread.com/hacker-arrested-f...).
Could not, for the life of me, remember the title however. Thanks again!

[Justanotherbiblophile]

Joseph wrote: "Thanks for finding this story. I joined this website when I saw your posting about The Perfect Fit."

I'm glad that this 'solved request' resolved your problem. Did you get here via google?