Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier - Softcover

Hafner, Katie; Markoff, John

 
9780671778798: Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier

Synopsis

Using the exploits of three international hackers, Cyberpunk explores the world of high-tech computer rebels and the subculture they've created. In a book as exciting as any Ludlum novel, the authors show how these young outlaws have learned to penetrate the most sensitive computer networks and how difficult it is to stop them.

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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.

About the Author

Katie Hafner is a contributing editor at Newsweek, where she covers technology. She has also written for Business Week, The New Republic, The New York Times, and Wired. She is currently working on a history of the Internet.

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