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As a guide to mainstream conceptions of hacking, viral code, and e-fraud, the book is invaluable both for the authorities it targets and its discussion of the antiauthoritarians who want to minimize both cyberharm and electronic oppression. Furnell makes some excellent points, well worth repeating as they're often ignored: computer security is still mostly laughable, most bad-guy hackers are less motivated by greed than other crooks, and traditional law-enforcement techniques are conspicuously irrelevant. For its topic, Cybercrime is comparatively calm and rational--just what we need to beat down the hype. --Rob Lightner


From the Back Cover
The world-wide cost of the Love Bug worm, unleashed in April 2000, was estimated to exceed $7 billion. There are currently over 66,000 strains of computer virus, with new ones appearing at a rate of over 1,000 per month. The number of website defacements recorded in a single week is now more than twice the number recorded for the whole of 1998. A poll of 47,235 elementary level and middle school students in the United States revealed that 48% of them did not consider hacking into systems to be... read more



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