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'Mafiaboy' Writes Book About Shutting Down The Internet
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawgster () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 23:50:28 -0700
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via The National Post (Canwest). [snip] The country's most notorious hacker, Mafiaboy, has written a tell-all book about his Internet attack of 2000 when he paralyzed the Web sites of CNN, Yahoo, eBay and other businesses for several hours. The book, Mafiaboy: How I Cracked the Internet and Why It's Still Broken, is expected to hit bookshelves next week. In it, the infamous hacker, now 23, explains that he was not a computer whiz kid but quickly gained knowledge of computers and got to know other young hackers. "I felt a strange kinship with these nameless, faceless programmers and online rebels," he writes in an excerpt made available by the publisher. "To me, they were the coolest kids in cyberspace. I wanted to hang with them. I wanted to be a hacker." The book, co-written with Montreal journalist Craig Silverman, is billed as "a cautionary tale." After a manhunt, the RCMP and FBI apprehended the then-15-year-old student. He pleaded guilty to more than 50 charges. [snip] More: http://www.nationalpost.com/todays_paper/story.html?id=854375 - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFI5cCwq1pz9mNUZTMRAu55AJ9JXVH/UHqyHY90WzzV+TuX4lTCkQCeLRqf p2QEi9KHamlvvXnuwp3Iwl4= =JjFC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawgster(at)gmail.com ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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