I don't know how I stumbled upon this game so late, but I stumbled hard and I am now totally addicted.
But from what I can tell the game is on its way out... websites rarely updated, this forum rarely looked at.
Did I miss all the fun!?
I got bored of uplink because at a certain point, (ie. after you manage to get a million or more credits from a bank server) the game became very easy, and thus, boring.
This was probably becuase a lot of the challenges designed to make the game much harder, can be bypassed with enough powerful software and a better gateway.
While it lasted though, it was a great game.