Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier - Softcover

Hafner, Katie; Markoff, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0552139637 ISBN 13: 9780552139632

Publisher: Corgi, 1993

Synopsis

Profiles computer hackers who overstep ethical boundaries and break the law to penetrate society's most sensitive computer networks

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Review

Cliff Stoll Author of The Cuckoo's Egg An astonishing story [whose] trail leads across modems...as well as police blotters in America and Germany. This is the computing underground, our high-tech counterculture.

Los Angeles Times Book Review An engrossing, valuable work.

PC Magazine Riveting...an important chronicle of what is happening on the edge of the information age.

Synopsis

"Cyberpunk" takes a journey into the world of computer crime and the new breed of criminal which threatens every type of business. There is Kevin Mitnick, the archetypal "dark side" hacker who penetrated the top-secret research group of one of the US's leading computer corporations. Also Pengo, a young Berliner, whose criminal fantasies led him to offer his services to the Soviet gorvernment. And Robert Morris, who brought down a nationwide computer network and first alerted the business world to the danger of viruses. This book takes the reader inside the minds of these outlaw hackers, showing what motivates them, how they operate, and how they and others like them can be prevented in the future.

Edition details

• Publisher: Corgi
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0552139637
• ISBN 13: 9780552139632
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480