Underground
Suelette Dreyfus and her co-author, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, tell the extraordinary true story of the computer underground, and the bizarre lives and crimes of an elite ring of international hackers who took on the establishment. Spanning three continents and a decade of high level infiltration, they created chaos amongst some of the world's biggest and most powerful organisations, including NASA and the US military. Brilliant and obsessed, many of them found themselves addicted to hacking and phreaking. Some descended into drugs and madness, others ended up in jail. As riveting as the finest detective novel and meticulously researched, Underground follows the hackers through their crimes, their betrayals, the hunt, raids and investigations. It is a gripping tale of the digital underground.
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- This? http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=5A8FE70517FD734D720...
Title: Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness, and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier
Author(s): Suelette Dreyfuss
Publisher: Mandarin Australia
Year: 1997
ISBN: 9781863305952, 1863305955
>> This book provides a great overview of a number of computer intrusion incidents and links them throught not only the technical nature of the activity but the persons behind them. UNDERGROUND provides an excellent overview of intrustion activities focusing on the UK, Australia, and the United States. It covers the late 80's to the early nineties with stories on incidents such as the WANK Worm outbreak and 8lgm's activities. The stand out attribute of this book is that it examines what happened to the intruders after their activity rather than focusing on the activity itself. It also examines the interrelationships between intruders worldwide giving some insight into how the culture allows for several key persons to be involved in or have siginficant knowledge of many different activities. A must have to include in your library along with other staples such as Cuckoo's Egg, Masters of Deception, Fugitive Game, and Hacker Crackdown. However, like the other books noted, there are apt to be a few points that persons will take exception too with regard to accuracy.
- Underground by By Suelette Dreyfus http://www.encyclopaedia.com/pdfs/9/518.pdf
- Suggest Underground, by Suelette Dreyfus and Julian Assange, at http://rootsecure.net/content/downloads/pdf/underground_book...
- "Underground" by Susan Dreyfus
It is about the phreaking/BBS era, specifically the Australian scene.
The deadtree version is impossible to find, but the author has released it as an ebook.
Download here: http://www.underground-book.net/download.php3
- If you liked this, you should check out Underground by Suelette Dreyfus. It's by far the best book about hackers ever written.
Edit: Oops, already mentioned in this thread http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=621273
- Strange thing but this is one of the things that got me really interested in computer science. It was very clever.
Not sure, but it might have been covered in the book Underground, by Suylette Dreyfus. Perhaps I’m thinking of another book tho
I found this part of the article hilarious:
The Internet was partitioned for several days, as regional networks disconnected from the NSFNet backbone and from each other to prevent recontamination while cleaning their own networks.
Internet was switched off for a bit for cleaning, said the hand written note. Come back later. Ha
No doubt impossible today.
