Ghost In The Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker - Softcover

Mitnick, Kevin; Simon, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0316212180 ISBN 13: 9780316212182

Publisher: Back Bay, 2012

Synopsis

Kevin Mitnick, the world's most wanted computer hacker, managed to hack into some of the country's most powerful - and seemingly impenetrable - agencies and companies. By conning employees into giving him private information and maneuvering through layers of security, he gained access to data that no one else could.

The suspenseful heart of the book unfolds as Mitnick disappears on a three-year run from the FBI. He creates fake identities, finds jobs at a law firm and hospital, and keeps tabs on his myriad pursuers - all while continuing to hack into computer systems and phone company switches that were considered flawless.

A modern, technology-driven adventure story, GHOST IN THE WIRES is a dramatic account of the joy of outsmarting security programs, the satisfaction of code-cracking, and the thrill of unbelievable escape.

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Review:

"Considering the fact that Windows 95 hadn't even been released when federal agents finally caught up with the computer hacker Kevin Mitnick, one might assume his new memoir would be full of stale old tech-and-techniques that no one in 2011 could possibly care about. But as Mitnick makes clear here, don't jump to conclusions.... "Ghost in the Wires" reads like a contemporary uber-geeky thriller....For those interested in computer history, "Ghost in the Wires" is a nostalgia trip to the quaint old days before hacking (and hackers) turned so malicious and financially motivated." J.D. Biersdorfer, "New York Times Book Review""

NATIONAL BESTSELLER
"Mitnick manages to make breaking computer code sound as action-packed as robbing a bank." "Rachel Syme, National Public Radio""

""Ghost in the Wires" reads like a contemporary uber-geeky thriller.... For those interested in computer history, Ghost in the Wires is a nostalgia trip to the quaint old days before hacking (and hackers) turned so malicious and financially motivated." "J.D. Biersdorfer, New York Times Book Review""

NATIONAL BESTSELLER
"Mitnick manages to make breaking computer code sound as action-packed as robbing a bank."--Rachel Syme, National Public Radio

"Ghost in the Wires reads like a contemporary uber-geeky thriller.... For those interested in computer history, Ghost in the Wires is a nostalgia trip to the quaint old days before hacking (and hackers) turned so malicious and financially motivated."--J.D. Biersdorfer, New York Times Book Review

"Intriguing, insightful and extremely educational into the mind of one who truly mastered the art of social engineering with the use of a computer and modern day technologies. I strongly believe that one can learn a great deal about protecting themselves once they understand how another one perpetrates the crime."--Frank W. Abagnale, author of Catch Me if You Can

"A gripping story.... Fascinating and filled with insights."--Jesse Singal, Boston Globe

"Reads like those of Frank Abagnale Jr. and Steven Jay Russell. But Mitnick's has a high-tech twist."--Booklist (starred review)

"It's the piquant human element that really animates this rollicking memoir of high-tech skullduggery....Mitnick's hacking narratives are lucid to neophytes and catnip to people who love code, but the book's heart is his 'social engineering' - his preternatural ability to schmooze and manipulate.....[a] nonstop caper."--Publishers Weekly

"Years ago, I helped put Kevin Mitnick in jail. I now see this made about as much sense as arresting Dean Martin for public drunkenness. Neither of them could stop themselves. Neither was doing any real harm. And, in both cases, watching them struggle with their obsessions was hugely entertaining. Kevin's book is certainly that. Terse and snappy, it reads like Raymond Chandler and provides detailed insight into a time in computer history that already seems quaint. Kevin Mitnick was and is a true Internet pioneer."--John Perry Barlow, cofounder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation

Book Description:

Kevin Mitnick's long-awaited memoir of computer hacking and FBI skirting, revealed now after seven years of government-mandated silence.

About this edition

• Publisher: Back Bay
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0316212180
• ISBN 13: 9780316212182
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 560