false 329262 2 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 <i>he</i> 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. 319873 1997 At Large: The Strange Case of the World's Biggest Internet Invasion total:4|4:3|3:1| 4 15 14 0 0 0 false false Tue Aug 11 17:55:09 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 17:55:09 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998 Thu Jul 02 08:09:02 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 08:09:11 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Wed May 13 06:40:48 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 06:40:48 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Mar 02 18:42:01 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 02 18:42:01 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Tue Feb 17 12:05:45 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 12:05:49 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sun Oct 26 14:24:02 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 26 14:24:02 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Thu Oct 23 12:28:32 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 23 12:28:40 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Mon Oct 06 08:18:16 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 06 08:18:16 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Wed Sep 17 09:07:29 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 17 09:08:14 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Thu Mar 13 13:36:22 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 13 13:36:22 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Tue Feb 26 12:27:16 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 26 12:27:16 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998 Mon Nov 26 06:41:50 -0800 2007 Mon Nov 26 06:41:50 -0800 2007 0 0 false false Thu Jul 19 22:12:21 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 19 22:12:21 -0700 2007 0 0 false false Sun Jun 10 09:23:43 -0700 2007 Sun Jun 10 09:23:43 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=329262