Michelle Slatalla: The Masters of Deception. The Gang That Ruled Cyberspace (1996)
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The bestselling account of a band of kids from New York who fought an electronic turf war that ranged across some of the nation’s most powerful computer systems.
Publisher HarperPerennial, 1996
ISBN 0060926945, 9780060926946
225 pages
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Comment (0)Suelette Dreyfus: Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness, and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier (1997/2001)
Filed under book | Tags: · hacking, security
This book describes the exploits of a group of Australian, American, and British black hat hackers during the late 1980s and early 1990s. * Craig Bowen (nickname), administrator of two important Australian BBS (Pacific Island and Zen) * The Parmaster, an American hacker who avoided capture by the United States Secret Service from July 1989 to November 1991 * Phoenix, Electron and Nom, who were convicted in the first major Australian trial for computer crimes * Pad and Gandalf, the British founders of the notorious 8lgm group * the Australian Mendax and Prime Suspect, who managed to penetrate the DDN, NIC and the Nortel internal network, and the phreaker Trax * Anthrax, another Australian hacker and phreaker.
The book also mentions other hackers who had contacts with the protagonists, among them Erik Bloodaxe of the Legion of Doom and Corrupt of the Masters of Deception. The first chapter of Underground relates the diffusion and reactions of the computer security community to the WANK worm that attacked DEC VMS computers over the DECnet in 1989 and was purportedly coded by a Melbourne hacker. The author made the electronic edition of the book freely available in 2001 at www.underground-book.com. The 2002 documentary In the Realm of the Hackers, directed by Kevin Anderson and centered around Phoenix and Electron, was inspired by this book.
Research by Julian Assange
Publisher Mandarin, a part of Reed Books Australia, 1997
ISBN 1863305955, 9781863305952
Length 475 pages
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Robert Latham (ed.): Bombs and Bandwidth: The Emerging Relationship Between Information Technology and Security (2004)
Filed under book | Tags: · globalisation, information technology, privacy, security, surveillance
Information technology (IT) has become central to the way governments, terrorist and criminal organizations, businesses, and social movements organize themselves and pursue their increasingly globalized objectives. With the emergence of the internet and new digital technologies, traditional boundaries and traditional concepts – from privacy, to surveillance, vulnerability, and above all, security – must be reconsidered. In the post-9/11 era of homeland security the relationship between IT and security has acquired a new and pressing relevance. `bomb & bandwidth’, a project of the social science research council, assembles leading scholars in range of disciplines to explore the new nature of IT-related threats, the new power structures emerging around it, and the ethical and political implications arising from this complex and important field. (published in arrangement with the new press, usa).
Publisher Manas Publications, 2004
ISBN 8170491924, 9788170491927
Length 326 pages
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