At Large: the Strange Case of the World's Biggest Internet Invasion

Mann, Charles C."

ISBN 10: 0684824647 / ISBN 13: 9780684824642

Published by Simon & Schuster, 1997

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: At Large: the Strange Case of the World's Biggest Internet Invasion
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0684824647
• ISBN 13: 9780684824642
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New

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Synopsis

For two years a computer break-in artist known only as "Phantom Dialer" seized control of hundreds - perhaps thousands - of computer networks around the world. Frightened network administrators watched helplessly as the intruder methodically slipped into universities, corporations, banks, and military facilities, including top-secret weapons-research sites. Working up to twenty hours a day, Phantom Dialer obsessively broke into one network after another - and no-one knew who he was or what he was after. Was he a spy? Was he laying the groundwork for a single massive theft? As the number of victims mounted, Phantom Dialer became the subject of the first major investigation of the FBI's new computer-crime squad and one of the biggest manhunts in the history of electronic crime. Though it reads like a thriller, AT LARGE is more than just a spellbinding account of one of the stranger episodes of the electronic 1990s. It is also a sharply observed group portrait of the new wired world and an expose of the technical flaws at its very core.

About the Author

David H.Freedman, editor of INC. TECHNOLOGY and a contributing editor to DISCOVER, is the author of BRAINMAKERS. Charles C. Mann, a contributing editor of THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY and SCIENCE magazine, is the co-author of NOAH'S CHOICE and THE SECOND CREATION.