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Masters of deception : the gang that ruled cyberspace

by Michelle Slatalla, Joshua Quittner

An account of the cyberspace rivalry between teenage hacker groups, the Legion of Doom and the Masters of Deception, detailing their infiltration of telephone and computer networks and the federal investigation that followed.

Accession 8712 ISBN 9780060926946 Publisher HarperCollins
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