The World's Most Dangerous Geek: And More True Hacking Stories
Written by David Kushner
Narrated by Nan McNamara
4/5
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About this audiobook
For the past twenty years, author David Kushner has been exploring these questions, interviewing key players, and providing much-needed answers. “The World’s Most Dangerous Geek: And More True Hacking Stories” is a riveting collection of his exclusive reports from the online underworld. We meet a fugitive hacktivist from the notorious collective, Anonymous; a lonely Floridian who hacked the emails of the biggest celebrities in Hollywood; and two artificial intelligence researchers who were both found dead in the same mysterious way.
You will come away from these stories with an appreciation for the awesome power of the Internet both to make fortunes and erase them, to build lives and destroy them.
David Kushner
A contributing editor of Rolling Stone, David Kushner also writes for publications including The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Wired, The New York Times Magazine, New York, GQ, and Esquire. Kushner served as the digital culture commentator for National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition Sunday, and has taught journalism at Princeton University and New York University. He has been featured in The Best Business Writing, The Best American Crime Reporting, and The Best Travel Writing, and his ebook The Bones of Marianna: A Reform School, a Terrible Secret, and a Hundred-Year Fight for Justice. His books include The Players Ball; Alligator Candy: A Memoir (an NPR Best Book of the Year); Jacked: The Outlaw Story of Grand Theft Auto; Levittown: Two Families, One Tycoon, and the Fight for Civil Rights in America’s Legendary Suburb; Jonny Magic and the Card Shark Kids: How a Gang of Geeks Beat the Odds and Stormed Las Vegas; and Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture.
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Reviews for The World's Most Dangerous Geek
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Hollywood style stories. This is reality show made from scary “hacking” stories.
This book is shallow and a waste of time.
Isn’t worth the time - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Interesting audiobook to listen while doing something else. Sometimes the chapter seems not very on the point, but none the less interesting stuff.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Good topics but poor references to date. I stopped reading it because it had very little references to dates. For example , “In June of THIS year” could have been “June of whatever ‘THIS year’ actually is”. Very frustrating!
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The stories were interesting, but the narrator’s voice took some getting used to. Her voice reminded me of the people I’ve heard in workplace training videos.