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Ten Cases That Made Cybersecurity Necessary, 1971-1998

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Series Audiobook 1 - The Hacker Chronicles
Unabridged

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Between 1971 and 1998, the networks the modern world was being built on had no defences worth the name. This is the story of ten cases that changed that.In 1971, a blind eight-year-old in Boston discovered he could whistle into a telephone and place free long-distance calls. In 1986, an astronomer at Berkeley traced a 75-cent accounting discrepancy to a West German intelligence operation. In 1988, ... Read more

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Turing's Cathedral

Computer Maintenance Hacks

Escape

The Innovators

The Friendly Orange Glow

The Ultimate Video Game Quiz

Your Data, Their Billions

Keep Calm and Log On

Microsoft First Generation

Replay

Story of Computing, The

Kindle Library Cleanup Made Easy

Aum Golly 3

How AI Thinks

Cryptocurrency: Mining, Investing and Trading in Blockchain for Beginners.

Theory of Computation

Darknet

הסיפור של גוגל

Silicon Gold Rush

IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon (History of Computing)

History of Computers

Hacker Crackdown, The

AI: Alsmaar Intelligenter

Hacker Chronicles, The - Volume 1: Origins