Hackers: Crime and the Digital Sublime

Description

The practice of computer hacking is increasingly being viewed as a major security dilemma in Western societies, by governments and security experts alike. Using material taken from interviews with a wide range of interested parties such as computer scientists, security experts and hackers themselves, Paul Taylor provides a revealing and richly sourced account of the debates that surround this controversial practice. By doing so, he reveals the dangers inherent in the extremes of conciliation and antagonism with which society reacts to hacking and argues that a new middle way must be found if we are to make the most of society's high-tech meddlers.

Paul Taylor is lecturer in sociology at the University of Salford

""Hackers is an interesting and accessible account of this relatively new (in terms of its application to the web) phenomenon."-"TechDirections ..."his European and sociological insight regarding illegal hackers and hacking culture are fascinating."-"Networker ..."I would...highly recommend this book to anyone in the security field. ...Taylor's book is the most extensive and detailed examination of the cracker phenomenon I have ever read."-"Information Security "A must-read for anyone who wants to understand the hacking phenomenon that has swept the world.."-Dorothy Denning, "Georgetown University