Here's one for all you programmers on hatrack. Can someone recommend a good resource (fiction or nonfiction) that accurately depicts what a network hacker does? I really want to avoid the romanticized Hollywood hacker (Seth Green in the Italian Job) who can crack a government computer system on a whim with a few keystrokes. I'm looking for realism. I read The Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll several years ago, but I'm sure that the technology in that book is fairly dated (and I think it may even be out of print anyway).
Thanks!
Brian
Posted by Christine (Member # 1646) on :
So apparently the Matrix Reloaded, as bad as it was, did accurately depict what a network hacker does. The scene towards the end of the movie where they brought down the power grid is what would really happen.
Also, try Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson a fiction book about hacking from WWII to present. I haven't read this one myself, but my husband, who's the network guy in the family, said it's good.
Posted by ccwbass (Member # 1850) on :
Christine beat me to it. I know squat about hacking, but that scene in Matrix Reloaded got a lot of kudos on the net from guys who claim to know something.