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AT LARGE: THE STRANGE CASE OF THE WORLD'S BIGGEST INTERNET INVASION
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AT LARGE is the astonishing, never-before-revealed tale of perhaps the biggest and certainly the most disturbing computer attack to date, with ominous implications for the Internet, the digital highway over which much of the nation's business is now conducted.
For two years a computer break-in artist known only as "Phantom Dialer" seized control of hundreds—perhaps thousands—of computer networks across the country and around the world. Frightened network administrators watched helplessly as the intruder methodically slipped into universities, corporations, banks, federal agencies, and military facilities, including top-secret weapons-research sites. Working up to twenty hours a day, Phantom Dialer obsessively broke into one network after another—and no one knew who he was or what he was after. Was he a spy? Was he laying the groundwork for a single, massive theft?
As the number of victims mounted, Phantom Dialer became the subject of the first major investigation of the FBI's new computer-crime squad and one of the biggest manhunts in the history of electronic crime. Stoop-shouldered, monitor-tanned network administrators; nerdy, antisocial hacker wannabes; egotistical, visionary code jockeys; bureaucracy-bound computer-security agencies—all were caught up in the alternately frightening and absurd chase for Phantom Dialer. But when FBI agents finally burst into Phantom Dialer's house, they were stunned and dismayed by what they found. The decision was made not to prosecute but instead to keep the story quiet. And so the incident has remained secret, until now.
Though it reads like a thriller, At Large is more than just a spellbinding account of one of the stranger episodes in the electronic America of the 1990s. It is also a sharply observed group portrait of the new wired world and an expose of the technological flaws at its very core.
Most of all, At Large is a warning bell for a nation rushing on-line. Even as it carries an ever-increasing amount of financial and personal information, the Internet is growing less, not more, secure. The story of Phantom Dialer demonstrates the vulnerability of the global network: anyone can break in almost anywhere. Indeed, though few recognize it, the massive crime wave has already begun.
For two years a computer break-in artist known only as "Phantom Dialer" seized control of hundreds—perhaps thousands—of computer networks across the country and around the world. Frightened network administrators watched helplessly as the intruder methodically slipped into universities, corporations, banks, federal agencies, and military facilities, including top-secret weapons-research sites. Working up to twenty hours a day, Phantom Dialer obsessively broke into one network after another—and no one knew who he was or what he was after. Was he a spy? Was he laying the groundwork for a single, massive theft?
As the number of victims mounted, Phantom Dialer became the subject of the first major investigation of the FBI's new computer-crime squad and one of the biggest manhunts in the history of electronic crime. Stoop-shouldered, monitor-tanned network administrators; nerdy, antisocial hacker wannabes; egotistical, visionary code jockeys; bureaucracy-bound computer-security agencies—all were caught up in the alternately frightening and absurd chase for Phantom Dialer. But when FBI agents finally burst into Phantom Dialer's house, they were stunned and dismayed by what they found. The decision was made not to prosecute but instead to keep the story quiet. And so the incident has remained secret, until now.
Though it reads like a thriller, At Large is more than just a spellbinding account of one of the stranger episodes in the electronic America of the 1990s. It is also a sharply observed group portrait of the new wired world and an expose of the technological flaws at its very core.
Most of all, At Large is a warning bell for a nation rushing on-line. Even as it carries an ever-increasing amount of financial and personal information, the Internet is growing less, not more, secure. The story of Phantom Dialer demonstrates the vulnerability of the global network: anyone can break in almost anywhere. Indeed, though few recognize it, the massive crime wave has already begun.
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DAVID H. FREEDMAN, editor of Inc. Technology and a contributing editor to Discover, is the author of Brainmakers.
CHARLES C. MANN, a contributing editor to The Atlantic Monthly and Science magazine, is the coauthor of Noah's Choice and The Second Creation.
CHARLES C. MANN, a contributing editor to The Atlantic Monthly and Science magazine, is the coauthor of Noah's Choice and The Second Creation.
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