Mafiaboy
How I Cracked The Internet And Why Its Still Broken
- Publisher
- Penguin Group Canada
- Initial publish date
- Dec 2009
- Category
- General
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780670067480
- Publish Date
- Sep 2008
- List Price
- $34
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780143056560
- Publish Date
- Dec 2009
- List Price
- $24.00
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In early 2000, the websites of CNN, Yahoo, E*Trade, Dell, Amazon, and eBay ground to a halt for several hours, causing a sense of panic everywhere from the White House to suburbia and around the world. After two months and hundreds of hours of wiretapping, the FBI and RCMP staged a late-night raid to apprehend the most wanted man in cyberspace—a fifteen-year-old kid. Mafiaboy. For eight years, Mafiaboy, a.k.a. Michael Calce, has ignored requests from every major media outlet in North America, he has not told a word of his story—until now. Using his story as a cautionary tale, Calce takes the reader through the history of hacking and how it has helped make the internet the new frontier for crime in the tweny-first century.