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Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier Pdf FREE UNDERGROUND: TALES OF HACKING, MADNESS AND OBSESSION ON THE ELECTRONIC FRONTIER PDF Suelette Dreyfus,Julian Assange | 512 pages | 01 May 2012 | Canongate Books Ltd | 9780857862594 | English | Edinburgh, United Kingdom Underground: Hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic frontier by Dreyfus - Free Ebook Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Underground by Suelette Dreyfus. Julian Assange Contributor. 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 Underground: Tales of Hacking the establishment. Spanning three continents and a decade of high level infiltration, they created chaos amongst some Underground: Tales of Hacking the world's biggest and most power 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 Underground: Tales of Hacking 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. Get A Copy. Hardcoverpages. Published June 6th by Mandarin first published More Details Original Title. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Undergroundplease sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Nov 23, Peter rated it it was amazing. I found this one to be a very entertaining read. Firstly, being one with a strong IT background I expected to quickly feel "at home". Secondly, and perhaps even more importantly, I was very much hoping to "relive" my personal experiences with the "early" inter net - to be confirmed in my own perceptions Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier you will. Then was time when you could still snoop around the net openly without second guesses and immediate fear of persecution - ultimately with a wish to simply learn as the driving force I found this one to be a very entertaining read. Then was time when you could still snoop around the net openly Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier second guesses and immediate Underground: Tales of Hacking of persecution - ultimately with a wish to simply learn as the driving force beind your doings. With regards to the book, everything that Dreyfuss writes about appears authentic to me, online BBS, the "holy grail" themed search for secret bug mailling lists and the at times nearly friendly toying of Hackers and Admins with one another all seems familiar. The general idea of what actually makes a "hacking person" contrary to a "cracker" is also conveyed clearly and should only serve to teach the reader to distinctly draw Underground: Tales of Hacking line between the "good" and the "bad" hackers. Dreyfuss also focuses alot on the personal lives and inner struggles found in most of the youthful hackers featured in her book, which only serves to make the book more entertaining and believable. When a nationwide wanted for hackings teenager falls in love with a girl and goes through all the states of happiness on to heartsickness it never feels fake or uncinsere. After all, even hackers are only humans - the book brings that integral message across very nicely. With that said, Underground is a fine factual novel that sheds some light on the early days of the net, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier curiosity still ruled those people engaged with it. The novel is easy to read and does not overburden someone who is already slightly at home with computers and the technologies around them. Aug 23, Jon rated it it was ok. Unfortunately, Dreyfus includes a lot of unnecessary information. I assume that Dreyfus included the additions to facilitate a better understanding of the characters. Unfortunately, on some of the characters the additional information does not add much to the psychological profile and makes reading a chore. Part of this feeling of unnecessary information Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier probably due to the way that Dreyfus organized the material. In the end, great stories and material, but the writing style and organization did not facilitate an enjoyable reading experience. A unique glimpse into the early hacker culture of the Underground: Tales of Hacking and 90s. It's good to have this recorded - the early internet and its curious pioneers. The ideas we are now debating — such as freedom of information — sprang to life from this fertile ground. Jan 02, Eric Phetteplace rated it did not like it Shelves: prose. A chronicle of the early days of hacking in the s, primarily focused on Australian hackers but with some British and American characters in there too. I guess I expected a little too much from this book as I was mainly interested in the technical side of things, which it does go into a little at parts but not enough for me. On the whole, though, it's just not well-written. Almost every narrative jumps around awkwardly as Dreyfus tries to fill in extraneous details she forgot to mention at th A chronicle of the early days of hacking in the s, primarily focused on Australian hackers but with some British and American characters in there too. Almost every narrative jumps around awkwardly as Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier tries to fill in extraneous details she forgot to mention at the appropriate time. Read through the first chapter and you'll understand what I Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier all that surrounding detail about NASA was useless to me. I love these glimpses into the minds of hackers and how everything worked before the Internet. Sharing, openness and then changes coming with new laws brought on by few "black sheep". Some of these stories are unbelievable. Some are sad. Some Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier funny. I enjoyed all of them. Well done. Apr 08, Brian Palmer rated it did not like it Shelves:non-fiction. Writing a book on hacking, computer security, and so forth is hard. When this was written, back init was surely even harder, as the general audience this book is aimed at was presumably less familiar with the technical details of "cyberspace. I read this from a PDF that's freely available on the book's website; it was presented in a fixed-width, ty Writing a book on hacking, computer security, and so forth is hard. I read this from a PDF that's freely available on the book's website; it was presented in a fixed-width, typewriter- seeming font -- the sort of font that you'd use to Underground: Tales of Hacking most electronic text from the s, and eschewed much typography or layout again, like you were reading an ASCII text from that period. This may have made it worse, because Dreyfus kept interrupting her own timeline to include anecdotes or brief timejumps about the subject of each chapter. But with no sign that the timejump occurred, the writing felt disjoint and bizarre, irrelevant details complicating what should be straightforward description of what happened. I read the first pages or so quickly, before it got to the chapter on Assange "Mendax". He apparently helped edit the text he is listed as a contributor here on Goodreads ; it was there that, whether it was simply seeing how the text glissed over attributes that more recent profiles of Assange have focused on, or wondering how much of this chapter has been glamorized, that I felt like it became a captive to the "hacker" view. In the end, I finished but was left feeling that the book glossed past things, and the writing itself left me down. I probably wouldn't recommend it -- Michelle Slatalla's Masters of Deception was written at around the same time, and took a similarly fairly sympathetic view of its characters, but is much better written. Nov 13, Sagar Acharya rated it it was amazing. A must book for nerds. A true account on Australian, British and US hackers. It shows the earliest ways to abuse computers and law and how phreakers and hackers having amazing handles brought about mischief, havoc and how they were penalised in their respective laws. I laughed for about two minutes on this wordplay. Many sides of hacking like social engineering getting things done by talking in a waylimited access exploiting for extracting free calls aroundA must book for nerds. Many sides of hacking like social engineering getting things done by talking in a waylimited access exploiting for extracting free calls aroundgetting root access through dial connections in very powerful Underground: Tales of Hacking and exaggerated ways of police to get confessions out of hackers are elaborated so well. These were times when hard disks were 20mb big and RAM was about 1mb for consumer computers and the universities had really poor network security systems.
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