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Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier

By Katie Hafner , John Markoff

Book information

Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Year
1991
ISBN
0671683225, 9780671683221
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
3 MB (2994490 bytes)
Pages
368\364
DPI
600
Time added
2013-02-26 10:29:44

Description

At the peak of his hacking career Kevin penetrated and disrupted the top-secret research group of one of America's leading computer manufacturers. Pengo simply wanted to be the best "outlaw" hacker in the world but the German authorities took a dim view of his selling copied software to the Russians. Robert Harris wanted to test computer security but instead brought down America's most sensitive research and military computer networks. Using these three cases the authors society's vulnerability to electronic sabotage and set out to demonstrate that although mischievously innocent so far, hackers could become a real threat in the electronic age.

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