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Wizzywig - Das Portrait Eines Notorischen Hackers (2014)

by Ed Piskor(Favorite Author)

3.66 of 5 Votes: 4

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Egmont

review 1: The more you know about hacking, the less interesting this volume is likely to be. It's interesting to see some of the old ways to hack into systems and to be presented with fascinating ways of beating the system that were possible in the past, as well as the hype around computer crime back before people understood what computer crimes were all about. It evokes a certain moment in time and a certain atmosphere okay, but... but.Past the technical details and the long list of hacking schemes, the story is somewhat unexciting. Sure, the main character is on the run from the FBI for a few years, but you always know he'll be caught, and you can suspect he'll be released one way or another. There isn't much finesse in the delivery of the points the author wants to make. Even tho... moreugh this is a "Portrait of a Serial Hacker", it feels more like a "Still life with serial hacking" - once you get past the hacking bit, the main character doesn't seem to have much of a life. One friend, one family member, no life beyond tech, no interest in women (except one interest in a girl, once, but nothing happens - then this one time when he jumps into bed with someone out of the blue. I was willing to consider him asexual and leave it at that, but the image of him wondering if he could have "scored anal" with her was a bit out of place for that). Not much of a reaction to his grandmother's death, either.Also, despite the whole volume focusing nearly exclusively on tech and popular reactions to digital crimes, it has random bits of explicit sex thrown all around the place. Reaching a part where a guy killed himself with erotic auto-asphyxiation, all I could feel was an intense "Wtf, why are you showing me this, book?"
review 2: La historia de un hacker desde sus inicios hasta ahora. El personaje principal es un portmanteau de diferentes personas reales, y cumple bien el objetivo de ponernos en el contexto de lo que vivieron, de algún modo, estas personas en una época de paranoia por lo desconocido de la tecnología. Lo sorprendente es ver que, en el fondo, la cosa no ha cambiado mucho. Aún hay gente que es apresada por ilícitos bastante difusos, y sin tener juicios justos, porque hay alguna empresa atrás teóricamente perdiendo dinero.Lectura rápida y entretenida, y el estilo por capítulos cortos me recordó bastante a Daniel Clowes, lo que nunca es malo. less

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