Goodell,J. The Cyberthief and the Samurai. 1996
Goodell, Jeff. The Cyberthief and the Samurai. New York: Dell Publishing,
1996. 328 pages.
There are three main characters in this story: Kevin Mitnick, the
notorious computer hacker who was chased for two years by the FBI; Tsutomu
Shimomura, a computer security expert who presumed that Mitnick had broken
into his machines at the San Diego Supercomputer Center; and John Markoff,
a reporter who hyped Mitnick in the NYT after co-authoring a book about him.
The chase is on: forged e-mail and faxes, cell-phone triangulations, the
FBI, and U.S. Marshals. A simple case of good guys vs. bad guy, right?
Not so fast. Mitnick is incorrigible, but he doesn't try to profit from
his computer break-ins. He's the product of a poor, broken family, a "hacker
without a cause." By contrast, Shimomura is a conceited, privileged yuppie,
a cell phone glued to his ear, even on the ski slopes. He too lacks a social
conscience, having once worked on nuclear weapons design at Los Alamos (even
though his father was 15 kilometers outside Nagasaki when the bomb dropped),
and now working with the ethically-challenged National Security Agency. Then
there's John Markoff, reporting for the NYT, which invariably reads like a
supermarket tabloid whenever it mentions the Internet. In the end, Mitnick
is in the slammer again for a long time, thanks to the untiring efforts of
Shimomura and Markoff, who are now millionaires with book and movie deals.
Now find the cyberthieves, by identifying those who made out like bandits.
ISBN 0-440-22205-2
- ABENE MARK (246-8)
- AUSTIN RON (HACKER) (96, 236)
- BARLOW JOHN PERRY (19, 250-1)
- BEASLEY RICHARD (94-5)
- BELLOVIN STEVE (233)
- BLACK JIM (LAPD) (55)
- BLOODAXE ERIC (320)
- BOESKY IVAN FREDERICK (68)
- BOWLER JOHN (300, 302-3)
- BROCKMAN JOHN (313-4)
- BROOKS MICHELLE (102-3, 107)
- BURNS LEVORD (266-70, 288-9, 291-3, 295, 304-6)
- BURT ANDREW (125-7, 209-10)
- CARSON KATHLEEN (272, 308)
- CHAPMAN MARK (U.S.MARSHAL) (303-7)
- CHESWICK BILL (250)
- CLIFT NEILL M (112-7, 159-65, 260)
- COMPUTER EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM (232)
- CUNNINGHAM KATHLEEN (135-44, 157-8, 205-7, 264-6, 272)
- DE PAYNE LEWIS (34-5, 40-1, 71, 97-100, 236)
- DI CICCO LEONARD MITCHELL (42, 59-61, 82, 150-1)
- DOMBROWSKI JAY (228)
- DRAPER JOHN (CAPTAIN CRUNCH) (35)
- ELAM LILE (199-204, 207)
- ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION (93)
- ELISAR SHIMRIT (164)
- FARMER DAN (228-9, 257)
- FEYNMAN RICHARD (224-6)
- FONVILLE GORDON (274)
- GAGE JOHN (13-7)
- GIBSON WILLIAM (NOVELIST) (39-40)
- GOLDSTEIN EMMANUEL (286)
- GROSS ANDREW (155, 216, 257, 260-1)
- GUIDRY GROUP (173-4)
- HAFNER KATIE (76-85, 128-31)
- HASSLACHER BROSL (229-30)
- HEADLEY SUSAN (25, 35, 41, 74)
- HESS MARKUS (92, 209)
- HOOD ROBERT (NETCOM) (260)
- JAFFEE SHELLY (140-2, 148-9, 264-6)
- JOBS STEVEN PAUL (35)
- KAPLAN RAY (21, 88-9, 115)
- KATZ JON (HOT WIRED) (320)
- KOBALL BRUCE (249-51, 319)
- KROUPA PATRICK (36-8)
- KUH TOM (GLENDALE CA) (103-7)
- LASKER LARRY (47)
- LAWRIE MICHAEL (116-7, 164)
- LAY IVY JAMES (277)
- LESSIAK SHIRLEY (4-10, 27)
- LEWITT JOHN (186-7, 189-90, 198)
- LODIN STEVE (231-2)
- LOTTOR MARK (18-9, 131, 200-1, 207, 323)
- LOURAN MAX (277-8)
- LOVELESS ED (3-5)
- LYONS BOB (DEC) (117)
- MARKEY EDWARD J (D-MA) (13, 16-7)
- MARKOFF JOHN (xvi, 17, 22, 63, 76-7, 128-32, 205-6, 234-5, 237, 251-2, 285-95, 311, 313-4, 319-20, 324)
- MCGUIRE KEN (196, 308)
- MENAPACE JULIA (216, 291)
- MITNICK KEVIN DAVID
- MITNICK MITCHELL (70-2, 90-1, 102-8)
- MOLITAR TOM (189-90)
- MORRIS ROBERT TAPPAN SR (233)
- MOSS JEFF (147-9)
- MURPHY JIM (RALEIGH NC) (267-71, 274-6, 279-82, 291-4)
- NUSSBAUM LEE (120-3)
- ORNELLAS STANLEY (96)
- ORSAK JOE (273-6, 280-97)
- ORTON IVAN (188, 195-8)
- PARKER DONN (SRI) (55-8)
- PAZASKI KEVIN (166-82, 186-7, 194-5, 198)
- PERRINE TOM (155, 205-7)
- PETERSEN JUSTIN (4, 93-101, 157-8, 236)
- PFAELZER MARIANA (62)
- POULSEN KEVIN LEE (19, 94-6)
- RATHE DWAYNE (266-8)
- REDELFS ANN (311-2, 314-5)
- RHOADES STEVEN (35, 130)
- ROSSETTO HARRIET (66-7, 69, 71-2, 91)
- ROSSETTO LOUIS (17)
- RUBIN ALAN (LOS ANGELES LAWYER) (68)
- SAMUELS SANDY (135)
- SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER (226-7)
- SCHINDLER DAVID (96, 158, 327)
- SCHWARTAU WINN (149-52)
- SEIDEN MARK (261)
- SETTLE JOHN C (JIM) (21-2)
- SHIMOMURA OSAMU (218-20, 222-4)
- SHIMOMURA TSUTOMU (215-328)
- SHORE CARY (5-9)
- SKLAR EMILY (316-8)
- SMARR LARRY (226, 258-9)
- SPIRE DAVID (103-8)
- STEELE ROBERT DAVID (121-2)
- STERLING BRUCE (93)
- STOLL CLIFFORD (72-3, 92)
- SWEENEY JOHN (OBSERVER) (155-7)
- THOMAS LATHELL (281-3, 304-5)
- TYLER JEFF (135-44, 157-8, 264-6)
- VITELLO BONNIE LYNNE (50-4, 71, 74)
- WALKER KENT (U.S.ATTORNEY) (285, 319)
- WEISS HARRY (108)
- WILLIAMS GAIL (249-50)
- WOZNIAK STEPHEN G (35)
- YOUNG TODD (173-89)
- YZURDIAGA JOHN (305)
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