O pirata eletronico e o Samurai

by Jeff Goodell

Kevin Mitnick foi o hacker mais procurado do mundo.

Ele foi chamado de "O Condor" e "Mr. Cyberpunk". Ele era um rebelde. Um solitário. A pobre criança da Califórnia escarrando o nariz para a sociedade como ele invadiu as empresas de telefonia, corporações internacionais - e, possivelmente, até mesmo o Comando Militar EUA.

O FBI não poderia impedi-lo. E eles com certeza não poderiam pegá-lo.

Então Kevin Mitnick fez o "impossível". Ele entrou no computador pessoal do homem considerado por muitos um mestre da cibersegurança, Tsutomu Shimomura. Esse computador armazenava dados para sistemas avançados de segurança e ferramentas superiores de intrusão e de vigilância secreta.

Shimomura - um samurai intelectual moderno - decidiu que Mitnick tinha que ser parado. Ele tinha os aparelhos de alta tecnologia e o cérebro para fazê-lo.

Agora o especialista em criminalidade informática tornou uma questão de honra trazer o mais notório criminoso digital da América à justiça. Mas a estrada da informação é o lugar perfeito para fugir, se esconder e fugir com truques sujos ...

Genres: Nonfiction, Technology, True Crime

270 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1996

About the author

Jeff Goodell’s latest book is The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet. He is the author of six previous books, including The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World, which was a New York Times Critics Top Book of 2017. He has covered climate change for more than two decades at Rolling Stone and discussed climate and energy issues on NPR, MSNBC, CNN, CNBC, ABC, NBC, Fox News and The Oprah Winfrey Show. He is a Senior Fellow at the Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center and a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow.

Reviews

[Nick Black · Rating 2 out of 5]

by far the worst of the classic Mitnick trio (see also The Fugitive Game and Takedown)

[Christopher M. · Rating 5 out of 5]

"Kevin Mitnick"

If you were in the IT industry and someone mentioned that name to you, not knowing at least who it was would be like a sports fan not knowing the names "Michael Jordan" or "Joe Montana".

In Jeff Goodell's book "The Cyberthief and the Samurai", we get to follow both the hunter and hunted through a chase which left only electronic trails or, sometimes, no trails at all. I enjoyed both sides of the tale, myself - as Kevin does have an 'underdog' quality that I admire, and he played the perfect rabbit to Tsutomu Shimomura's wolf, this tale of true crime keeping me on the edge of my seat as I rode along on an action story too fantastic to be fiction.

[M. W. · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a really fun and nerdy account of the events that led to Kevin Mitnick's incarceration. I've read this book at least seven times....it's sooooo cyberpunk.

[Corey · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting read, not as good as Cyberpunk

[Susan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Engaging true story that reads like fiction.

[manka · Rating 2 out of 5]

Začátek mne moc nebavil, ke konci se to zlepšilo, ale musím říct, že od knihy s takovýmhle názvem bych čekala zábavnější brak. Ale asi nejsem správná cílovka, věřím, že mikrobratr tohle ocení...