
Breaking and Entering
The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called "Alien"
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Narrado por:
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Jonathan Todd Ross
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De:
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Jeremy N. Smith
This taut, true thriller takes a deep dive into a dark world that touches us all, as seen through the brilliant, breakneck career of an extraordinary hacker - a woman known only as Alien.
When she arrived at MIT in the 1990s, Alien wanted to study aerospace engineering, but she was soon drawn to the school’s venerable tradition of high-risk physical trespassing: the original “hacking”. Within a year, one of her hallmates was dead, two others were on trial, and two had been institutionalized. Alien’s adventures were only just beginning.
After a stint at the storied, secretive Los Alamos National Laboratory, Alien was recruited by a top cybersecurity firm where she deployed her large cache of virtual weapons - and the trespassing and social engineering talents she first developed while “hacking” at MIT. The company tested its clients’ security by every means possible - not just coding, but donning disguises and sneaking past guards and secretaries into the C-suite. (She once got into the vault of a major bank by posing as its auditor.)
Alien now runs her own boutique hacking outfit that caters to some of the world’s biggest and most vulnerable institutions - banks, retailers, government agencies. Her work combines devilish charm, old-school deception, and next generation spycraft.
In Breaking and Entering, cybersecurity finally gets the rich, character-driven, pacey treatment it deserves.
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Very inspirational
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A good read
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The bonus was the story of how information hacking developed, how sophisticated it is, who it affects and where it’s going.
If this doesn’t inspire you to get serious about password security and guarding all you personal data like your life depended on it, I don’t know what will.
Great story of information security
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read this book
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My first audio book and I really enjoyed it. Can’t wait to start my next audible book.
An important lesson for all of us in a digital world
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Slow and interesting
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MIT exceptionalism. You know, you’re actually not all that.
Otherwise I found it quite uplifting to hear about a woman’s success in this overwhelmingly male world.
Poorly read but vaguely entertaining
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Essential reading for Internet security
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A riveting, eye-opening , informative "read"!
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The technical part of the memoir outlines some of the techniques of "Pen-Testing" -- trying to penetrate computer systems using both technical and social engineering methods. These were interesting to me although I do not think that there was much to learn about how this is done for someone even modestly acquainted with computer security. But, the author does make it seem exciting to deploy a large-scale "phishing" scam and waiting expectantly for the "phishs" to bite -- followed up by a social engineering phone-call. "You won an Ipod. Just download this file for your free gift card."
Along the way, the story is also one of a woman coming of age in a male-dominated field. The heroine recapitulates some of the characteristics of Ellsbeth Salander in Woman with the Dragon Tattoo -- Goth clothing, leather mini-skirts, roller-blades and motor-cycles. By the conclusion, it all ends with business suits, play-dates, day-care centers, and a Subaru Outback. There is also enough sex interwoven with the hacking to keep the reader's attention.
The narration is excellent. Solid and well-paced. I found the first chapters of the book a little slow, but the last two-thirds were captivating driveway listening.
Coming of age as a hacker
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