{"id":11868,"date":"2011-10-23T15:38:38","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T14:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=11868"},"modified":"2011-10-23T15:38:38","modified_gmt":"2011-10-23T14:38:38","slug":"book-review-kingpin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=11868","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Kingpin"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I finished reading, Kingpin<\/a>, an account of how a teenager grew up to become the second biggest \u201ccarder\u201d hacker in the world.  The book is written by a Wired.com journalist, based on the true story of Max \u201cRay Vision\u201d Butler<\/a>.  His story is an interesting one, covering nearly 20 years of Internet history and Butler\u2019s role in it.<\/p>\n

The books is not a page turning thriller book.  But so much of it was familiar and that\u2019s what kept me reading.  I\u2019d heard of whitehat.com, I remember the huge warnings about a VNC vulnerability about 5 years ago, and I recall MSFT screaming to us about patching an IE graphics processing vulnerability.  This book tells us how 1 man made use of unpatched machines to commit cyber crime in the multi-million dollar range.  So even though this one won\u2019t have you distracted in the office, it does bring home the reality of crime on the Internet, and how old school hacking for ego has been replaced by hacking for profit.  Instead of being the usual fiction, it is based on real history, most of it from the last 10 years.<\/p>\n

I haven\u2019t found anything similar to read, so I\u2019ve moved on to reading the \u201cA Song of Ice and Fire\u201d box set<\/a> which kicks of with A Game of Thrones, the book behind the HBO TV show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I finished reading, Kingpin, an account of how a teenager grew up to become the second biggest \u201ccarder\u201d hacker in the world.  The book is written by a Wired.com journalist, based on the true story of Max \u201cRay Vision\u201d Butler.  His story is an interesting one, covering nearly 20 years of Internet history and Butler\u2019s … Continue reading “Book Review: Kingpin”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}