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Approaching Zero
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Data Crime and the Computer Underworld
by Bryan Clough & Paul Mungo
Published by Faber and Faber ISBN 0-571-16813-2
Approaching Zero is a book on hacking and phreaking as you may have
guessed. The book is divided into 8 main parts.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
'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.'
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.
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'.
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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