still too pissed off about my lost hour reviewing Hitch-22 to properly write; suffice to say that this is the best true hax0r crime book written as of April 2011 -- yes, i have read them all (previous title holder: The Hacker Crackdown. it pleases me to no longer need praise anything by confirmed mountebank Bruce Sterling, though he's been replaced by charlatan Kevin Poulsen....whom I think I must reassess).

so much nostalgia. i knew two characters, peripheral but named, personally, and half-expected to see my first, favorite and most successful startup mentioned on any page. poulsen gets it all right (ahh, the MSR206, how many lives did you change for better and worse?), from details historial to cultural to psychological. great book, save that game time's no more than about one hour.

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http://garwarner.blogspot.com/2011/03... very solid review here, and i dig poulsen's "THREAT LEVEL" blog on wired. it's always amusing if nothing else. poulsen might be a big douchebag (see The Fugitive Game), but he did give us this awesomeness: