Newsweek, December 4, 1995 "Is This Hacker Evil or Merely Misunderstood?" "Littman offers a somewhat different take. Here, Mitnick's at the center, going public for the first time. We watch as he evades his FBI pursuers, monitors their cell phones, reads their credit reports, anticipates their moves - and tells Littman all about it. The author doesn't approve, but he poses broader questions. Government investigators, it turns out, hired a criminal hacker to track Mitnick, maybe entice him into the open. Would this not be entrapment?" |
"...the author offers fascinating insights into the world-class hacker's life on the run...A consistently absorbing book that fills in many of the blanks left by Takedown."
Publisher's Weekly (starred review) November 27, 1995
"Although Littman is dealing with the same events that Tsutomu Shimomura and John Markoff chronicle in Takedown, he remains a disinterested reporter who broadens the scope of the inquiry."
New York Magazine, January 8, 1996
"America's Most Hyped"
By Jon Katz
"Littman is refreshingly allergic to the hype that smothered this story from the first. The lines between the good and bad guys and between morality and criminality in cyberspace, Littman suggests, are a lot blurrier than Takedown acknowledges...More significantly, Littman challenges the sorry state of journalistic ethics in the age of the megadeal."
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