Mafiaboy: How I Cracked The Internet And Why Its Still Broken

By (author): "Michael Calce"
Publish Date: January 1st 2008
Mafiaboy: How I Cracked The Internet And Why Its Still Broken
ISBN0670067482
ISBN139780670067480
AsinMafiaboy: How I Cracked The Internet And Why Its Still Broken
Original titleMafiaboy: How I Cracked the Internet and Why It's Still Broken
In early 2000, the websites of CNN, Yahoo, E*Trade, Dell, Amazon, and eBay ground to a halt for several hours, causing panic everywhere from the White House to suburbia and around the world. After 2 months and hundreds of hours of wiretapping, the FBI and RCMP staged a late-night raid to apprehend the most wanted man in cyberspace—a 15-year-old kid, Mafiaboy. 8 years later, Mafiaboy, a.k.a.Michael Calce, has ignored requests from every major media outlet in North America and has not told a word of his story—until now. Using his experience as a cautionary tale, Calce takes the reader through the history of hacking and how it has helped make the internet the new frontier for crime in the 21st century.