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- Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier
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- Katie Hafner & John Markoff
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- Published by Corgi ISBN 0-522-13963-7
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- OK from the title of this book its pretty obvious what its all about.
- Computer crime, hacking, piracy and virus. The book focuses on three
- main stories, which are all true.
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- 1. Kevin: The Dark-Side Hacker
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- Kevin was a normal sort of kid (weren't we all) who had a fascination
- with computers, in short Kevin is/was the typical hacker stereotype.
- What he did was to hack into one of the top US's leading business. This
- soon attracted the attentions of the authorities and the FBI.
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- 2. Pengo and Project Equalizer
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- Pengo was a young Berliner who dreamed of becoming one of the worlds
- greatest hackers. This ambition of his led him to trade stolen computer
- data with the Soviet Union.
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- 3. RTM
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- Robert Morris a very talented programmer who brought down a nationwide
- computer network and rased the worlds eye brow to the danger of computer
- virus. This account follows Morris through the programming and letting
- lose of the Worm (type of virus) and the following court case. Yes he
- was caught and punished.
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- This book makes a gripping read for all those interested in the computer
- underworld. It was first published in 1991 but most of the tricks
- described are still in use today. Well if you don't believe me this is
- what Bruce Sterling (author of The Hacker Crackdown) said 'The best book
- ever written on the computer underground'.
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- Madness
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