The Cyberthief and the Samurai

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• mindcrime · Dec 6, 2021 · Recommends

  I don't know if I really even believe in the idea of "must read" books, but here are at least a few I highly recommend. In no particular order. FICTION The Mysterious Island - Verne The Time Machine - Wells Nineteen Eighty-Four - Orwell Fahrenheit 451 - Bradbury Brave New World - Huxley Snow Crash - Stephenson The Shockwave Rider - Brunner The Fountainhead - Rand Cryptonomicon - Stephens

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• noufalibrahim · Jul 20, 2023 · Recommends

  The Cyberthief and the Samurai (along with a few other books like Snow Crash, Hackers, the Cuckoos egg etc.) were books that made a big impact on me earlier in my life. It wasn't as much about facts as much as about building a virtual…

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• ahazred8ta · Nov 9, 2024 · Recommends

  On a smaller scale: The Cyberthief and the Samurai (1996) is about Shimomura and Kevin Mitnick https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18163.The_Cyberthief_and... The Cuckoo's Egg (1989) is about Clifford Stoll and a West German hacking for the KGB https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18154.The_Cuckoo_s_Egg

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• mindcrime · Jun 23, 2021 · Mentions

  …launched me on my path to a (short and inauspicious) "career" as a phone phreak. But I've remained fascinated with Kevin's story all the way to the current day, and actually just finished reading The Cyberthief and the Samurai and a couple of other books about his story, which I had not read before.

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