I echo other's comments. Shockwave Rider was one of the first books to
talk about computer hacking. Cryptonomicron, Daemon, yes yes yes.
For a laugh,, look as Deception Point, by Dan Brown and some of Tom
Clancy's "Op Center" books are unintentionally hilarious.
I recall one part where a guy was racing his small nimble data packet
in order to get to a server before a big dangerous data packet
arrived. ROTF!
Some recent reads I enjoyed:.
* "This is not a game" - by Walter Jon Williams
About someone using social networking
resources to solve real issues using the fiction that it's a
game.
* Hammerjack - Marc D. Giller
- Matrix-style hacking. I enjoyed it, but I can;t remember the
plot too well.
* Altered Carbon
Not a acking but, but a futureistic world where people's minds
are transmitted, and memory dumps are backed up and perhaps
hacked. A great read. It's a hard-boild dectective story in a
futuristic world.
* Outrageous Fortune - Tim Scott
- Bizarre and insane. Freaking wierd!
But it all makes sense at the end. the real key is the DNA
Virus.
And you will be talking about some of the scenes for years.
Kiln People
- Not security, but a wonderfiul SciFi book on what happens if
you can replicate memory and place it in a spare body.
Awesome concepts. One of the keys to great SciFi is when one
person takes and idea, and expands it and expands it to create
a whole new world where everythign is changed, including
societies. This is one of those books.
Non-fiction
* Takedown: The Pursuit and Capture of Kevin Mitnick.
Light on details. And I'm sure Kevini's story
is very
different.
* Hacker Crackdown - Bruce Sterling - buch of short histories of hackers.
And in a completely different SciFi genre, that might appeal to some:
* Crossover &
* Breakaway &
* KillSwitch - Joel Shepard
She's a super Ninja/Combat specializt
She's horny as hell
She's a robot in human form
(I just had to mention this one :-).
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