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Kingpin

How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-dollar Cybercrime Underground
Aug 12, 2013StarGladiator rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
This is a book by a real hacker, about hacking in the illegitimate sense of the word, which admittedly is difficult to ascertain when one exists in a completely fraud-based society such as America presently is. A real hacker, as opposed to some grandstanding neophyte such as Kevin Mitnick, who, to those who didn't know him, was more the credit card thief, than hacker, and incompetent at his job in tech support at Group Health which he once held (and his prediction that Microsoft - - and I'm NO MS fan - - would be a goner by 2001 was as on target as his other stuff). Update: The author of this book, now an editor at "Wired" magazine, was the only person and/or reporter, to file FOIA requests for information files from the Secret Service on Aaron Swartz and his persecution.) [Order of best books on subject: 1) "This Machine Kills Secrets" 2) "Kingpin" 3) "Anonymous"]