EVIE Spectacular Computer Crimes Buck BloomBecker Stan Kurzban Chappaqua, New York As Buck BloomBecker says, his "Book . . mixes autobiography, short stories, essays, and reportage . . to lure (the reader) into caring about computer security, even working to bring about change in it." Indeed, the book contains much material that serves the author's objective. Here are interesting and informative chapters devoted to the parables of familiar miscreants such as Jerome Neal Schneider, Stanley Mark Rifkin, Harold Rossfields Smith, Donald Gene Burleson, Kevin Mitnick, Oliver North, and Robert Tappan Morris (not "Jr." as in the book .) Here too are BloomBecker's heroes and near heroes, such as John Tabe, Jan Hanasz and Jerry Schneider. And lesserknown personages, both black-hats and whitehats, get chapters of their own on misappropriation of computer resources, scams, lecherous police, fare-beating, Trojan horses, phone phreaking and terrorism. Vital to the book's legitimacy is its definition of the term "computer crime" that appears in its title. Here there is grave disappointment . BloomBecker refers to the "battle (that) centers on whether computer crime is designed to protect information or computer systems." (p. 69) Even if we amend the quotation by adding the needed word
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Book review: Spectacular Computer Crimes by Buck BloomBecker
Reviewer-Kurzban, Stan
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Association for Computing Machinery – Jun 1, 1991
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