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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 500
EAN: 9780684818627
ISBN: 0684818620
Label: Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: November 01, 1995
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Sales Rank: 643901
Studio: Simon & Schuster
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Rating:  - Read this together with...
...Steven Levy's "Hackers". Hackers is the more technically and historically detailed of the two. Cyberpunk is a breezy bit of pop journalism centering on three early cases of hackerism. It's an entertaining read, though substantively little more than a gloss on Levy's much better book.
Rating:  - Back in the good 'ol days...
I have read this book a number of times over the years (I picked it up when it first came out) and have always enjoyed reading it. Even though it does only scratch the surface of the hacker culture, it's definitely an entertaining read. I know that I've heard that many of the things that were written in here (especially about Kevin Mitnick) have been termed libelous and untrue by some people. I can't vouch for what's fact and what's not in this book. I can only say that it does give a good idea ... Read More
Rating:  - On the Outside Looking In.
Although Markoff is an exceptional writer and the book is both easy to read and entertaining, the content is presented as factual when the truth is that these guys definitely wrote the book with only part of the whole story at their disposal. One of the main "cyberpunks" depicted in the book is Kevin Mitnick, who claims that he has never even met John Markoff. How can the book fairly and accurately speak to the topic of hacking during the early days of the Internet revolution when they never did any ... Read More
Rating:  - Inaccurate, unengaging, and wildly libelous
First off, John Markoff does NOT tell an unbiased story, especially regarding the Mitnick case. Kevin Mitnick, preferring to keep a low profile, has not promoted his own story, and as a result he has had his name slandered by mediawhores like Markoff. Markoff traveled extensively with Tsutomu Shimomura, the security expert who eventually (and with much government aid) apprehended Mitnick. It is quite clear whose side he is on as he repeatedly demonizes Mitnick as a fat, malicious, juvenile person with ... Read More
Rating: - Excellent history lesson...
The tales in this book are old ones now. Mitnick's escapades continued on to more infamous heights than this book, as the new epilogue explains. Having grown up working with Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) computers, the descriptions of Mitnick's hacking on PDP-11 and VAX systems was like a dark-side of my high school days. Having worked at Radio Shack just after graduating college, I knew a lot of "phreakers" who worshipped the people mentioned in the book.
I teach classes for computer ... Read More
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