The Watchman: The Twisted Life and Crimes of Serial Hacker Kevin Poulsen by Jonathan Littman My rating: 5 of 5 stars I’ve long heard about Kevin Poulsen, but didn’t know as much about him as I did about another early hacker, Kevin Mitnick, and I wanted to learn more, so this book was great. And …
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The Infinite Battle by David Bischoff My rating: 1 of 5 stars I couldn't finish it. I couldn't even ever get into it. It just seemed a little too forced, a little too '80s, a little too Battlestar Gallactica, a little too dorky to me. It's like the author was trying too hard to be …
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Prelude to Foundation by Isaac Asimov My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is the prequel to the infamous Asimov Foundation series, actually the sixth book written decades after the original trilogy was written. If you’re read any of my reviews of the original trilogy, you’ll remember that I wasn’t impressed. I couldn’t even finish …
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Fatal System Error: The Hunt for the New Crime Lords Who are Bringing Down the Internet by Joseph Menn My rating: 3 of 5 stars Fatal System Error is an absolutely scary as shit, totally frightening book about today’s hackers and their ties to the Russian mob and how billions of US dollars in terms …
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The Robots of Dawn by Isaac Asimov My rating: 4 of 5 stars I thoroughly enjoyed this third book in the Isaac Asimov robot trilogy (which I believe turned into four books…) and thought it was the best one. It follows the paths of Earth investigator Elijah Bailey and his Spacer robot sidekick R Daneel …
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