Takedown: The Persuit and Capture of Kevin Mitnick, America's Most Wanted Computer Outlaw -- By the Man Who Did It
Tsutomu Shimomura with John Markoff
Hyperion, New York, 1995. ISBM 0-7868-6210-6 $24.95
From the dust jacket:
The capture of the notorious computer outlaw Kevin Mitnick on the evening of February 14, 1995, brought to an end on of the most dramatic and bizarre crime sprees in recent times. Mitnick had become the most wanted hacker in history by stealing millions of dollars worth of information from government, corporate, and university computer systems and had successfully outwitted Federal authorities for more than two years. But on Christmas Day he made a fatal mistake when he launched a raid on the home system of brilliant computer security expert Tsutomom Shimomura--and inadvertantly fired the first volley in a seven week mattle that would be waged across an entire continent--a battle that was ultimately fought for the soul of the Internet.
Takedown is Tsutomo Shimomura's own riviting account of the story that has already become a real-life epic for the Information Age--a classic manhunt that, instead of being carried out on crowded urban streets or backcountry roads, is conducted over telephone wires. Angered by the attach on his computer--which is soon followed by a series of threatening telephone calls and malicious scattering of his personal files throughout the Internet--Shimomura sets ou to learn the identity of his mysterious intruder, armed only with his expertise and an array of high-tech weaponry.
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