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- Approaching Zero
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- Data Crime and the Computer Underworld
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- by Bryan Clough & Paul Mungo
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- Published by Faber and Faber ISBN 0-571-16813-2
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- Approaching Zero is a book on hacking and phreaking as you may have
- guessed. The book is divided into 8 main parts.
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- 1. Phreaking for Fun
- This chapter explains what Phreaking is and how it came about, it also
- highlights some of the equipment used and the infamous people involved.
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- 2. Breaking and Entering
- This part of the book deals with Captain Crunch, another infamous Phone
- Phreaker from the US when he visited the UK. Also the ways computer
- hackers gain access to the UK telephone network.
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- 3. Data Crime
- This chapter deals with Pat Riddle, the very first hacker to be
- prosecuted in the US, and his various hackes, crackes etc.
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- 4. Virus, Worms, Trojans, Bombs
- As you might have guessed this chapter deals with the software danger to
- computers commonly know as Viruses. Also so mind blowing info on Logic
- Bombs.
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- 5. The Bulgarian Threat
- Now this chapter is quite interesting, its all about the birth of Viruses
- and in particular about the Bulgarian hackers and virus programmers. An
- amazing read about the problems caused and the future threats of Viruses.
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- 6. Hacking for Profit
- A few tails of how a few hackers broke the International bank codes and
- stole loads of money. It might be true but if it is, well better keep a
- good eye on you bank statements. Also a few other computer related
- scams, one being an attempt to blackmail people into sending a virus
- programmer money for an antidote to a most dangerous virus.
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- 7. The Illumminati Conspiracy
- Hacking has always been seen as a bit of fun, by the hackers of course,
- but to the rest of the world its considered a very serious and even
- deadly offence.
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- 'Karl Koch was last seen alive on the 23 May 1989....... Nine days later
- the police went to a wood on the outskirts of the small village of Ohof,
- just outside Hannover, on a routine inquiry. They were investigating a
- report of an abandoned car, its roof, hood and windscreen thick with
- dust. In the undergrowth near the car, the police stumbled on a charred
- corpse lying next to an empty gasoline can.'
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- This is a TRUE account of what dangers lie in wait for all hackers, if
- they go poking where they shouldn't. This book is worth buying just for
- this chapter a most gripping read.
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- 8. Crackdown
- Another account of the huge crackdown on computer hackers in the USA, if
- you want a better account you best buy 'The Hacker Crackdown'.
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- This has to be one of my favourite books on the computer underground
- manly because a lot of the info within the book is based on Europe, the
- only place to live :-).
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