Influence

by Stephen Smith

Influence is set in the present about punk rock hacker, J@ck Tr@de, who discovers a security backdoor in a large corporate server operating system to gain access to all of the world’s servers. He uses this illicit access to mine bitcoin and influence local politics via Social Media. He becomes criminally and romantically entwined with Mia, the creator of the backdoor and their plans escalate to increase their wealth and power. The FBI investigate and chase them, in a clumsy cat and mouse game. As the story progresses, J@ck’s Social Media altering Bots become more and more influential. They make J@ck a billionaire through stock market manipulation. Then the Social Media bots continue to evolve...

230 pages, Paperback

Published December 4, 2018

About the author

Stephen Smith is a software architect, located in Gibsons, BC, Canada. He's been developing software since high school, or way too many years to record. He is an expert in Artificial Intelligence and Assembly Language programming, earned his Advanced HAM Radio License, and enjoys mountain biking, hiking, and nature photography. He volunteers for Sunshine Coast Search and Rescue. He is the author of Raspberry Pi Assembly Language Programming: ARM Processor Coding, Programming with 64-Bit ARM Assembly Language: Single Board Computer Development for Raspberry Pi and Mobile Devices, and RP2040 Assembly Language Programming: ARM Cortex-M0+ on the Raspberry Pi Pico, all published by Apress. Also, he writes his popular technology blog, at smist08.wordpress.com.