At Large
Isabel Danforth (danforth@tiac.net)
Fri, 14 Nov 1997 10:44:52 -0500
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 10:44:52 -0500
Message-Id: <3.0.4.32.19971114105132.00856100@sunspot.tiac.net>
From: Isabel Danforth <danforth@tiac.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list <conntech>
Subject: At Large
I thought I would share with you all a fantastic, scary true book. I guess
it really reinforces the need for competent system administrators. I know
that I have learned that since my early ventures onto the internet that a
good bit of knowledge is needed to secure a system.
At Large : The Strange Case of the World's Biggest Internet Invasion
by David H. Freedman, Charles C. Mann
A review found on the amazon.com site
Cyberculture Editor's Recommended Book, 08/01/97:
Perhaps the scariest story of insufficient computer security and cybercrime
yet is the true tale of Phantom Dialer. He accessed university and military
research centers, banks, even the computers that controlled central
California's dams. His actions could have put tens of thousands of lives at
risk. And what makes it so frightening is that he was not a criminal or
computing genius. He was a curious, persistent, and mentally-challenged
young man who never truly understood his own actions. So if he could do
that, what might a determined terrorist do? Because, as Charles Mann and
David Freedman show, advances in the Internet have been making it easier,
not harder, for security crackers to go where they're not wanted. The book
reads like a techno-thriller--from the discovery of a small cyberbreak-in
to the massive manhunt that tracked him down and the troubled birth of the
FBI's computer crime squad--complete with all the humor and poignancies of
real human events.
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Isabel L. Danforth Reference Librarian, Wethersfield Public Library
danforth@tiac.net Coordinator of Librarians' Online Support Team
http://www.gnacademy.org:8001/~lost/
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