'Mafiaboy' Writes Book About Shutting Down The Internet

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawgster () gmail com>]

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Via The National Post (Canwest).

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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.

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More:
http://www.nationalpost.com/todays_paper/story.html?id=854375

- - ferg

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