Full name: Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness, and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier

Authors: Suelette Dreyfus, Julian Assange Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9781863305952 1863305955

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 themselves 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. Similar books: Masters of Deception by Michelle Slatalla The Fugitive Game by Jonathan Littman Cyberpunk by Katie Hafner Kingpin by Kevin Poulsen @ Large by David H. Freedman The Hacker Crackdown by Bruce Sterling The Watchman by Jonathan Littman