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Haker. Prawdziwa Historia Szefa Cybermafii (2011)

by Kevin Poulsen(Favorite Author)

4.01 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

8324018719 (ISBN13: 9788324018710)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Społeczny Instytut Wydawniczy Znak

review 1: My mom passed this book to me, along with numerous others about computer espionage and hacking. This one was a quick and fascinating read - on that nearly made by blood boil to learn how easy software companies made it to hack our personal computers and gain our credit card numbers as far back as the 1980s. It details the effort of an amazing FBI man to bring down a brilliant cyber criminal Max "Vision" Butler, also known as Iceman online. It's a fascinating look at how mag-wipe credit cards were first stolen, how the process evolved, and the first criminals to sell mass lists of data. While Europe and nearly every other country on the planet has moved past the easy to compromise mag-swipe credit cards to the highly secure pin and chip credits cards, the United States h... moreas not. Last Christmas my credit card info was hacked by the infamous Target breach. Sadly, the same month I read this book, I learned that it was compromised again by Home Depot. I called to complain loudly with my credit card company to move them to fight the cause and they sent me a pin and chip card. If every consumer called someone to complain maybe we could move the corporate giants to push forward the necessary reforms.
review 2: A great read all around, in no small part due to the fact that the events themselves are already riveting. This book provides a great insight into carder culture, and the early days of hacking (I say early because of the continual leaps in technological progress being made daily). Following the life of a notorious hacker who can't seem to decide whether he's playing for the feds or for the hacking community, author Poulsen manages to encapsulate all of the important details and facts eloquently, and in a manner that even the non-tech savvy can interpret. less

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