At Large
The Strange Case of the World's Biggest Internet Invasion
1st Edition
Published on 3. June 1998
320 pages
978-1-4391-3657-7 (ISBN)
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Hailed as "a chilling portrait" by The Boston Globe and "a crafty thriller" by Newsweek, this astonishing story of an obsessive hacker promises to change the way you look at the Internet forever.
At Large chronicles the massive manhunt that united hard-nosed FBI agents, computer nerds, and uptight security bureaucrats against an elusive computer outlaw who broke into highly secured computer systems at banks, universities, federal agencies, and top-secret military weapons-research sites. Here is "a real-life tale of cops vs. hackers, by two technology writers with a flair for turning a complicated crime and investigation into a fast-moving edge-of-your-seat story" (Kirkus Reviews, starred). At Large blows the lid off the frightening vulnerability of the global online network, which leaves not only systems, but also individuals, exposed.
At Large chronicles the massive manhunt that united hard-nosed FBI agents, computer nerds, and uptight security bureaucrats against an elusive computer outlaw who broke into highly secured computer systems at banks, universities, federal agencies, and top-secret military weapons-research sites. Here is "a real-life tale of cops vs. hackers, by two technology writers with a flair for turning a complicated crime and investigation into a fast-moving edge-of-your-seat story" (Kirkus Reviews, starred). At Large blows the lid off the frightening vulnerability of the global online network, which leaves not only systems, but also individuals, exposed.
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Charles C. Mann | David H. Freedman
At Large
The Strange Case of the World's Biggest Internet Invasion
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03/1999
Simon & Schuster
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Charles C. Mann is the author of 1491, which won the U.S. National Academy of Sciences' Keck award for the best book of the year. A correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, Science, and Wired, he has covered the intersection of science, technology, and commerce for many newspapers and magazines here and abroad, including the New York Times, Vanity Fair, the Washington Post, and more. In addition to 1491, he was the co-author of four other non-fiction books. He is now working on a companion volume to 1491. His website is www.charlesmann.org.
David H. Freedman is a contributing editor for Inc. Magazine, and has written on science, business, and technology for The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Science, Wired, and many other publications. His newest book, Wrong, about why experts keep failing us, came out in June, 2010. His last book (coauthored) was A Perfect Mess, about the useful role of disorder in daily life, business, and science. He is also the author of books about the US Marines, computer crime, and artificial intelligence. Freedman's blog, ?Making Sense of Medicine,? takes a close, critical look at medical findings making current headlines with an eye to separating out the frequent hype. He lives near Boston.
Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- A note of the reader
- Contents
- Prologue
- 1 Busysignals
- 2 Crazyhouse
- 3 Crashing The Shuttle
- 4 Su-Qvt
- 5 Apocalypse Now
- 6 The Hacker Ethos
- 7 The Tale Of The Tape
- 8 Infomaster
- 9 The Dot Zone
- 10 @Large
- 11 Intel Inside
- 12 The Never-Ending Story
- 13 Hong Kong Heist
- 14 Breaking The Backbone
- 15 Hard Case
- Epilogue
- A Note On Sources And Techniques
- For Further Reading
- Acknowledgments
- Index
