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I highly enjoyed reading this book - does anyone else have recommendations for similar reads? Masters of Doom was another great one.

hcrisp 4y ago
Style and subject: Ghost in the Wires, Kevin Mitnick Subject: Worm, Mark Bowden Countdown to Zero Day, Kim Zetter Style: The Soul of a New Machine, Tracy Kidder All the President's Men, Woodward & Bernstein
- denton-scratch 4y ago
  I think I read Soul Of A New Machine in the same year I read The Cuckoo's Egg. Both books left a deep impression on me. Stoll was a deadhead, right? He used to go to see the Dead at the Greek?
  - CliffStoll 4y ago
    Not really a deadhead -- I used to go to the Greek for Dead concerts (hey, it's Berkeley), but I didn't follow them around the country or analyze X-Factors. Anyways, when the Greek Theater is a 10 minute downhill walk from your lab, how could you not go? (those days seem so long-ago...)
brians 4y ago
Most Secret War, a tale of the Battle of the Beams and the nascent technical intelligence groups that set the context for the Battle of Britain.
wmf 4y ago
In the hacker true crime genre you have The Hacker Crackdown, Takedown, and Masters of Deception.
mindcrime 4y ago
Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier - Katie Hafner & John Markoff[1] This book was really my entry point into the world of "hacking" as "breaking into things" and computer security, and the computer underground scene. It's broken into three sections: 1. A recounting of Kevin Mitnick's early days out in LA 2. A stripped down re-telling of the German hackers story (as recounted at greater length and in first-person in The Cuckoo's Egg) 3. A section on Robert Morris and the "Morris Worm" events There are some questions about the veracity of parts of this book, especially the sections on Mitnick, but I think it's still worth a read. But if you're into this sort of thing, I'd suggest also reading other books on Mitnick (particularly his auto-biographical book Ghost In The Wires[2]) to get a more balanced view of his story - as well as more of what happened later in Mitnick's life. [1]: https://www.amazon.com/CYBERPUNK-Outlaws-Hackers-Computer-Frontier/dp/0684818620 https://www.amazon.com/CYBERPUNK-Outlaws-Hackers-Computer-Fr... [2]: https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Wires-Adventures-Worlds-Wanted/dp/0316037729\ https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Wires-Adventures-Worlds-Wanted/...*

hcrisp 4y ago

Style and subject: Ghost in the Wires, Kevin Mitnick Subject: Worm, Mark Bowden Countdown to Zero Day, Kim Zetter Style: The Soul of a New Machine, Tracy Kidder All the President's Men, Woodward & Bernstein

denton-scratch 4y ago
I think I read Soul Of A New Machine in the same year I read The Cuckoo's Egg. Both books left a deep impression on me. Stoll was a deadhead, right? He used to go to see the Dead at the Greek?
- CliffStoll 4y ago
  Not really a deadhead -- I used to go to the Greek for Dead concerts (hey, it's Berkeley), but I didn't follow them around the country or analyze X-Factors. Anyways, when the Greek Theater is a 10 minute downhill walk from your lab, how could you not go? (those days seem so long-ago...)

brians 4y ago

Most Secret War, a tale of the Battle of the Beams and the nascent technical intelligence groups that set the context for the Battle of Britain.

wmf 4y ago

In the hacker true crime genre you have The Hacker Crackdown, Takedown, and Masters of Deception.

mindcrime 4y ago

Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier - Katie Hafner & John Markoff[1] This book was really my entry point into the world of "hacking" as "breaking into things" and computer security, and the computer underground scene. It's broken into three sections: 1. A recounting of Kevin Mitnick's early days out in LA 2. A stripped down re-telling of the German hackers story (as recounted at greater length and in first-person in The Cuckoo's Egg) 3. A section on Robert Morris and the "Morris Worm" events There are some questions about the veracity of parts of this book, especially the sections on Mitnick, but I think it's still worth a read. But if you're into this sort of thing, I'd suggest also reading other books on Mitnick (particularly his auto-biographical book Ghost In The Wires[2]) to get a more balanced view of his story - as well as more of what happened later in Mitnick's life. [1]: https://www.amazon.com/CYBERPUNK-Outlaws-Hackers-Computer-Frontier/dp/0684818620 https://www.amazon.com/CYBERPUNK-Outlaws-Hackers-Computer-Fr... [2]: https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Wires-Adventures-Worlds-Wanted/dp/0316037729\ https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Wires-Adventures-Worlds-Wanted/...*