Hacker Cracker: A Journey from the Mean Streets of Brooklyn to the Frontiers of Cyberspace (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780060935818)

Like other kids in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, Ejovi Nuwere grew up among thugs and drug dealers. When he was eleven, he helped form a gang; at twelve, he attempted suicide. In his large, extended family, one uncle was a career criminal, one a graduate student with his own computer. By the time Ejovi was fourteen, he was spending as much time on the computer as his uncle was. Within a year he was well on his way to a hacking career that would lead him to one of the most audacious and potentially dangerous computer break-ins of all time, secret until now.

Before he finished high school he had created a hidden life in the hacker underground and an increasingly prominent career as a computer security consultant. At the age of twenty-two, he was a top security specialist for one of the world's largest financial houses.

Hacker Cracker is at once the most candid revelation to date of the dark secrets of cyberspace and the simple, unaffected story of an inner-city child's triumph over shattering odds to achieve unparalleled success.

Author: David Chanoff, Ejovi Nuwere
ISBN-10: 0060935812
ISBN-13: 9780060935818
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Language: English
Published: 12/16/2003
Pages: 258
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 9.08h x 6.02w x 0.72d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.4
Point Value: 12
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 80012 / Hacker Cracker: A Journey from the Mean Streets of Brooklyn to the Frontiers of Cyberspace

Award: Tayshas Reading - Commended