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Written like a California noir thriller by way of William Gibson, The Watchman brings to life the wildest, most audacious crime spree in the history of cyberspace. Busted as a teenager for hacking into Pac Bell phone networks, Kevin Poulsen would find his punishment was a job with a Silicon Valley defense contractor. By day he seemed to have gone straight, toiling on systems for computer-aided war. But by night he burglarized telephone switching offices, adopting the personae and aliases of his favorite comic-book anti heroes - the Watchmen. When authorities found a locker crammed with swiped telecommunications equipment, Poulsen became a fugitive from the FBI, living the life of a cyberpunk in a neon Hollywood underground. Soon he made the front pages of the New York Times and became the first hacker charged with espionage. Littman takes us behind the headlines and into the world of Poulsen and his rogues' gallery of cyberthieves. Drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews with Poulsen, his confederates, and the authorities, he spins a thrilling chase story on the electronic frontier. The nation's phone network was Poulsen's playground. On Los Angeles's lucrative radio giveaways, Poulsen worked his magic, winning Porsches and tens of thousands of dollars. He secretly switched on the numbers of defunct Yellow Pages escort ads and took his cut of the profits. And he could wiretap or electronically stalk whomever he pleased, his childhood love or movie stars. The FBI seemed no match for Poulsen. But as Unsolved Mysteries prepared a broadcast on the hacker's crimes, LAPD vice stumbled onto his trail, and an undercover operation began on Sunset Strip.
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- Title The Watchman: The Twisted Life and Crimes of Serial Hacker Kevin Poulsen
- Author Jonathan Littman
- Binding Hardback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Little Brown and Company, Boston
- Publication date 1997-01-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780316528573 / 0316528579
- Weight 1.42 lbs (0.64 kg)
- Dimensions 9.26 x 6.42 x 1.14 in (23.52 x 16.31 x 2.90 cm)
- Category True Crime / Espionage
- Library of Congress subjects Computer crimes - United States, Computer hackers - United States
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 96047168
- Dewey Decimal Code 364.168
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- Booklist, 02/15/1997, Page 980
- Kirkus Reviews, 01/15/1997, Page 122
- Library Journal, 02/15/1997, Page 148
- New York Times, 03/30/1997, Page 17
- Publishers Weekly, 01/27/1997, Page 88
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