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Ask HN: Recommendations of good cybercrime novels?
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#12Rick Dakan's "Geek Mafia" trilogy
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#13darknet is exciting and well grounded technically. also cyberstorm by same author.
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#14Ghost in the Wire by Kevin Mitnick.
I can't believe no one recommended this. The guy literally evaded the FBI using technology.
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#15Citing Wikipedia: "Blackout: Tomorrow Will Be Too Late" is a disaster thriller book by the Austrian author Marc Elsberg, described by Penguin Books as "a 21st-century high-concept disaster thriller".
The novel is about a European power outage due to a cyberattack. For realism the book is written on the basis of interviews with intelligence and computer security officials.
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#16Bruce Sterling's The Hacker Crackdown (nonfiction, now freeware). Lots of important early hacker history and run-ins with the authorities, plus the origin story of the EFF.
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#17You said "novels", so I'm assuming you're looking for fiction. If that's the case I enjoyed Jon Evans' "Swarm": http://m.feedbooks.com/userbook/24466/swarm
I just assumed that a lot of them would be novels. If you have any recommendations for real-life stuff I’d love that too.
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#18The Cuckoo's Egg , by Cliff Stoll.
This. Cliff Stoll is better known for his other book, where he got a bunch of predictions about the internet wrong, but Cuckoo’s Nest is a lot better read. Based on a true story, how a few cent $ difference led him to discover a massive hack going on, and how he was chasing the hacker.
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#19Older, but easy reads -
The Hacker Crackdown Bruce Sterling 1992 (freeware)
Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier Suelette Dreyfus 1997 (Free version available)
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#20if you like books that combine fiction and technical detail, I can thoroughly recommend the "stealing the network" series. It has an intriguing overarching plot and the details are all accurate and technical-minded - the best comparison I can give is it's like "The Martian" but for cybersecurity.