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Suelette Dreyfus and her co-author, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, tell the extraordinary true story of the computer underground, and the bizarre lives and crimes of an elite ring of international hackers who took on the establishment. Spanning three continents and a decade of high level infiltration, they created chaos amongst some of the world's biggest and most powerful organisations, including NASA and the US military. Brilliant and obsessed, many of them found themselves addicted to hacking and phreaking. Some descended into drugs and madness, others ended up in jail. As riveting as the finest detective novel and meticulously researched, Underground follows the hackers through their crimes, their betrayals, the hunt, raids and investigations. It is a gripping tale of the digital underground.

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Publié par	Canongate Books
Date de parution	05 janvier 2012
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780857862600
Langue	English

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Dr Suelette Dreyfus is an award-winning writer and journalist. In addition to writing the first major book about computer hacking in Australia, Underground , she was the Associate Producer of a documentary about hackers. Her articles have appeared in magazines and newspapers such as The Independent (London), The Age , The Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian . She began work on Underground while completing her PhD. She is a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne, where she runs several major research projects in information systems.
Julian Assange is an internet activist, journalist and publisher. Born and raised in Australia, Julian is the founder, spokesperson, and editor in chief of WikiLeaks, a whistleblower website that started in 2006. In 2010, WikiLeaks began to publish hundreds of thousands of classified details about American involvement in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, which created a media storm. At the end of 2010, the site published a series of classified US diplomatic cables, now known as Cablegate.
An astonishing book. Bernard Lagan, The Age
This is not just another book about the Internet; it s an entirely original focus on the bizarre lives and crimes of an extraordinary group of teenage hackers . . . Gripping, eminently readable . . . Dreyfus has uncovered one of this country s best kept secrets and in doing so has created a highly intense and enjoyable read. Rolling Stone
In this riveting, real-life yarn, Dreyfus develops a meticulously researched psychological and social profile of hackers . . . [She] makes the esoteric world of the hacker accessible to the average reader. Australian Bookseller Publisher
Historians often bemoan the loss of written records of day-to-day life, a process that started in earnest when the telephone began ousting mail in mainstream communications. Computers have led to an even greater fall in permanent written records in the last 20 years. Which is just one reason why Suelette Dreyfus Underground is such a valuable work. Dreyfus is not (as the publicity for the book might lead us to believe) blowing the whistle on today s computer hackers, with all the Big Brother/pornscape fear-mongering that might entail. Instead, she s documenting the recent history of computer culture . . . the things they [the hackers] occasionally discover, and the over-reaction of those around them, are genuinely fascinating. Dreyfus does not attempt any sleights of hand with jargon . . . The true stories of Underground are simply compelling. David Nichols, The Big Issue
So mysterious are computer hackers, so deeply anonymous and sinister, that they almost seem more legend than reality. So it comes as some sort of relief to have them flushed out into the open by Suelette Dreyfus in Underground , the first Australian book to document the activities and psychopathology of hackers . . . Dreyfus has researched her subject comprehensively and transformed archival data and interviews into a hard-to-put-down narrative . . . Underground is a landmark book in its disclosures about this dark underbelly of the information technology revolution. It raises questions about society and family values, education, corporate security, police procedures and the ability of the legal system to deal with this new form of crime. And it is a riveting read. Samela Harris, Adelaide Advertiser
I couldn t put Underground down during a long flight last week . . . [the author s] frank and unabashed account of an eclectic mix of home-grown hackers and their overseas counterparts makes compelling reading for those of us who want more than just salacious and hyped snippets . . . Underground is backed up by detailed technical research . . . She puts flesh on the bones of many of these teenage rebels, who have made a counter-culture protest against the telcos, Big Brother, the Feds, the military and other authoritarian figures . . . The dark side of their lives is revealed in all its . . . ruthlessness . . . surrounded in many instances by surprisingly mundane . . . brick veneer homes. Trudie MacIntosh, The Australian
I m grateful to Ms Dreyfus for introducing me to a number of first-rate subversives. And my joy knew no bounds when I discovered that some of the best of the electronic anarchists were Australian. At a time when the country s going down the gurgler, it was good to feel a rush of national pride. Phillip Adams, Late Night Live , Radio National
Underground is an adventure book for the brain . . . Cowboys . . . roamed unpatrolled electronic frontiers. Some made it into the systems of powerful organisations, [where] the hackers would leave their mark - akin to flashing a virtual brown-eye - [and] . . . cause chaos to the powers that be. Underground takes us inside these gods of a new technology . . . It s an action story. Sarah Macdonald, Triple J Radio
UNDERGROUND
Suelette Dreyfus and Julian Assange
This digital edition first published in 2011 by Canongate Books, 14 High Street Edinburgh, EH1 1TE
First published by Reed Books Australia in 1997
Copyright 1997, 2001, 2011 Suelette Dreyfus Copyright 2001, 2011 Researcher s Introduction - Julian Assange
The moral right of the authors has been asserted
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available on request from the British Library
eISBN: 978 0 85786 260 0
www.canongate.tv
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
2 The Corner Pub
3 The American Connection
4 The Fugitive
5 The Holy Grail
6 Page 1, The New York Times
7 Judgement Day
8 The International Subversives
9 Operation Weather
10 Anthrax - The Outsider
11 The Prisoner s Dilemma
Afterword
Conclusion
Glossary and Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
To Peter, Audrey, Beatrice and my parents SD
To D, F, S and A JA
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

There are many people who were interviewed for this work, and many others who helped in providing documents so vital for fact checking. Often this help involved spending a considerable amount of time explaining complex technical or legal matters. I want to express my gratitude to all these people, some of whom prefer to remain anonymous, for their willingness to dig through the files in search of yet one more report and their patience in answering yet one more question.
I want to thank the members of the computer underground, past and present, who were interviewed for this book. Most gave me extraordinary access to their lives, for which I am very grateful.
I also want to thank Julian Assange for his tireless research efforts. His superb technical expertise and first-rate research is evidence by the immense number of details which are included in this book.
Three exceptional women - Fiona Inglis, Deb Callaghan and Jennifer Byrne - believed in my vision for this book and helped me to bring it to fruition. Carl Harrison-Ford s excellent editing job streamlined a large and difficult manuscript despite the tight deadline. Thank you also to Judy Brookes.
I thank the team at Canongate Books for their hard work in bringing this book to publication in Britain, especially Nick Davies.
A very special thank you goes to Patrick Mangan, Nikki Christer, Larissa Edwards and the Random House Australia team for putting together this new edition with such care and attention to detail despite the ticking clock. I am also very grateful to the following people and organisations for their help (in no particular order): John McMahon, Ron Tencati, Kevin Oberman, Ray Kaplan, the New York Daily News library staff, the New York Post library staff, Bow Street Magistrates Court staff, Southwark Court staff, the US Secret Service, the Black Mountain Police, Michael Rosenberg, Michael Rosen, Melbourne Magistrates Court staff, D.L. Sellers Co. staff, Victorian County Court staff, Paul Galbally, Mark Dorset, Suburbia.net, Freeside Communications, Greg Hooper, H S Support Services, Peter Andrews, Kevin Thompson, Andrew Weaver, Mukhtar Hussain, Helen Meredith, Ivan Himmelhoch, Michael Hall, Donn Ferris, Victorian State Library staff, News Limited library staff (Sydney), Allan Young, Ed DeHart, Annabel Blay, Annette Seeber, Arthur Arkin, Doug Barnes, Jeremy Porter, James McNabb, Carolyn Ford, ATA, Domini Banfield, Alistair Kelman, Ann-Maree Moodie, Jane Hutchinson, Catherine Murphy, Norma Hawkins, N. Llewelyn, Christine Assange, Russell Brand, Matthew Bishop, Matthew Cox, Michele Ziehlky, Andrew James, Brendan McGrath, News Limited, Pearson Williams Solicitors, Tami Friedman, the Free Software Foundation (GNU Project), the US Department of Energy Computer Incident Advisory Capability, Project Gutenberg, Claire, Lance and Michael, Till Tolkemitt, Lutz Kroth, Klaus Gabbert, Heike Rosbach, Andreas Simon dos Santos, Michael Kellner, Bernhard Schmid, Steffen Jacobs, Frances Uckerman and Bertel Schmitt.
A good book is usually the product of many people s contributions, and that has certainly been the case with Underground .
Finally, I would like to thank my mother, my father and Peter, whose unfailing support, advice and encouragement have made this book possible.
Suelette Dreyfus
INTRODUCTION TO UNDERGROUND, SECOND EDITION

BY SUELETTE DREYFUS

Who are computer hackers? Why do they hack?
Underground tried to answer these questions when it was first published in 1997. The questions still seem relevant more than a decade later. WikiLeaks, the world-famous publisher of documents leaked in the public interest, grew out of the computer underground described in this book. It has been said that WikiLeaks stories have changed the way people think about how the world is run . 1 To understand WikiLeaks, you need to know the back story: Underground is that story.
Underground is the back story because it reveals a world of people who use technology to solve problems with thinking from outside the box . This goes back to the earliest definition of a hacker,