"Hard-boiled Wonderland and end of the world" by Murakami. Not exactly a cybercrime novel. But I find the novel to be resonant with SF/cyberpunk subculture and an engrossing read too.
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just finished this one and really enjoyed it. I will say, it would have been infuriating to read if I didn't already know the story ended with her takedown.
Spoiler alert?
Only if you have managed to ignore every major story about Theranos/Elizabeth for the last couple years...
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#103On the topic of Non-fiction cybercrime books, one that provides very good insight imho on the history of spam albeit a little hard to follow is "Spam Nation", by Brian Krebs
"Spam Kings" isn't bad either. A bit dated, but it's a good history of one of the earlier spam operations.
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#104The Cuckoo's Egg , by Cliff Stoll.
Yep, this one is a great read!
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#105Similar title, different book:
Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground by Kevin Poulsen ISBN-978-0307588692
The story of how credit card hacker Max Butler was caught by the FBI.
Re: Ask HN: Recommendations of good cybercrime novels?
#106Ghost in the wires by Kevin Mitnick.
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#107Not a book, but Person of Interest is a very good serial about cyber stuff & IA. Plus, more of the thing the team do is cyber-crime or gray-hacking.
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#108We all know that novels are by definition fiction, right?
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#109not really a cybercrime novel, but really interesting for people in that business i'd say. Spy Catcher. That is written by someone in high position of MI:5 and their first 'science' officer. a lot of interesting information about spying which later really kickstarted cyber espionage / crime in a way...
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#110I would recommend "Underground", a text-only e-book about (perhaps even by?) Kevin Mitnick, how the entire hacker scene got started, and through the cat-and-mouse game that led to Mitnick's eventual arrest. Unfortunately, I cannot find a link to this work; although I did find uncountable similar books and movies on the topic. Perhaps this will suffice as a teaser? "Catching Kevin" at Wired: https://www.wired.com/1996…
I'm not sure which specific Kevin Mitnick book you're actually referring to or looking for but the book "Underground" is actually by Suelette Dreyfus and is about the nascent hacker/cracker subculture of the late '80s and early '90s. It was researched by/with Julian Assange (not written by him as another commenter has stated) who is known in the book as "Mendax". [1]
Interestingly, the book was released for free online in 2001, at the suggestion of Julian Assange, and the author credits this online release for expanding both the quantity and range of different people that would end up reading the book. [2]
The book can be read online (in HTML) at [2] or various ebook formats can be downloaded from Project Gutenberg at [3].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_(Dreyfus_book)
[2] https://suelette.home.xs4all.nl/underground/justin/preface.h...