KEVIN POULSEN is a senior editor at Wired.com and a contributor to Wired magazine. He oversees cybercrime, privacy, and political coverage for Wired.com and edits the award-winning Threat Level blog (wired.com/threatlevel), which he founded in 2005.
"[A] brisk and entertaining tale."--The New York Times
"Even though he has done jail time for his cyber crimes and credit
card hacking, it’s hard not to like Max "Max Vision" Butler.... The
capers of this misfit genius, and the FBI’s attempts to infiltrate
credit card hacking rings, combine to make this a fast, fun
read."--Newark Star-Ledger
“Hello, Hollywood, Kevin Poulsen has a tale for you. Deftly
told.”—San Francisco Chronicle
"What will make this book endure is Poulsen's elegant elucidation
of how the hacking world evolved from its pimply, ideological
beginnings into a global criminal enterprise"--Atlantic.com
“Poulsen renders the hacker world with such virtual reality that
readers will have difficulty logging off until the very
end.”—Publishers Weekly
“The lead figures of KINGPIN are brilliant, crooked geeks and the
sleazy women who love to help them steal. Their mortal enemies
are a cyber-savvy swarm of undercover cops. Kevin Poulsen
gets so close to these paranoid, shadowy people that you can smell
the sweat on the keyboards and hear the handcuffs clack shut. No
other book can match this intimate, expert portrait of a truly
modern criminal underworld.”--Bruce Sterling, Hugo Award-winning
novelist and futurist
“An exciting crime thriller, a compelling psychological study, and
one of the most accurate stories of hacker culture that I’ve ever
read…Poulsen deftly explains the technology behind these
ultramodern computer crimes and shows how they’re
committed.”--Annalee Newitz, Editor in Chief of io9.com
“With the tense drama and future shock of a William Gibson novel,
Kevin Poulsen spins a scary-true tale of the dark-side hacker
underground and its most adept sorcerer.”--Steven Levy, author of
Hackers and Crypto
"The most thorough portrait to date of a top modern U.S. cyber
criminal and an engaging tale of cops against robbers against other
robbers. No one writes with more authority than Kevin Poulsen about
how hackers actually go about their business."--Joseph Menn, author
of All the Rave and Fatal System Error
“Building on the best of the police procedural tradition, Kevin
Poulsen lays out in clear language the technologies and methods
employed by the criminals and crime fighters alike, all the while
crafting a sympathetic character study of the conflicted gray hat,
Max Vision, at the heart of it all.”--Jonathan Zittrain, Harvard
professor and author of The Future of the Internet and How to Stop
It
“A superb, insider tour of the dark Internet that lies below "the
whitewashed, commercialized" world of the Web. Kevin Poulsen is one
of the very few people who understands the territory: the scammers,
the scammers of the scammers, and the law enforcement officers
trying to catch them. KINGPIN describes a parallel business world,
including "the underground's first hostile takeover," where
characters who call themselves names like DarkCyd and Matrix and
Ghost23 battle for control of digital scams. It is a
fascinating, scary ride.”--Ellen Ullman, author of Close to the
Machine and The Bug
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