Hacker Cracker: A Journey from the Mean Streets of Brooklyn to the Frontiers of CyberspaceHarper Collins, 2009 M10 13 - 272 pages Like other kids in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, Ejovi Nuwere grew up among thugs and drug dealers. When he was eleven, he helped form a gang; at twelve, he attempted suicide. In his large, extended family, one uncle was a career criminal, one a graduate student with his own computer. By the time Ejovi was fourteen, he was spending as much time on the computer as his uncle was. Within a year he was well on his way to a hacking career that would lead him to one of the most audacious and potentially dangerous computer break-ins of all time, secret until now. Before he finished high school he had created a hidden life in the hacker underground and an increasingly prominent career as a computer security consultant. At the age of twenty-two, he was a top security specialist for one of the world's largest financial houses. Hacker Cracker is at once the most candid revelation to date of the dark secrets of cyberspace and the simple, unaffected story of an inner-city child's triumph over shattering odds to achieve unparalleled success. |
Contents
8 | |
Be Prepared | 20 |
ChkChk Boom | 36 |
The Knife | 55 |
Graphic Arts | 79 |
Administrator Jim | 98 |
Whats Better Than Free? | 110 |
Digital Yakuza | 125 |
Facts of Life | 158 |
12 | 175 |
The Holy Grail | 192 |
San Shou | 202 |
Japan Dreaming | 218 |
September 11 | 231 |
Glossary | 249 |
Hacker | 144 |
Other editions - View all
Hacker Cracker: A Journey from the Mean Streets of Brooklyn to the Frontiers ... Ejovi Nuwere No preview available - 2003 |
Hacker Cracker: A Journey from the Mean Streets of Brooklyn to the Frontiers ... Ejovi Nuwere,David Chanoff No preview available - 2002 |
Hacker Cracker: A Journey from the Mean Streets of Brooklyn to the Frontiers ... David Chanoff,Ejovi Nuwere No preview available - 2003 |