The Termination Node - Rilegato

Gresh, Lois H.; Weinberg, Robert E.

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ISBN 10: 0345412451 ISBN 13: 9780345412454

Casa editrice: Del Rey, 1999

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Young computer security expert Judy Carmody puts her own life on the line to capture a ring of "cyber-thieves" responsible for robbing a bank by invading its computer system, in a thriller co-written by a computer security specialist. Tour.

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"An early warning of 21st century crime and terrorism . . . An intelligent book . . . Refreshing and frightening . . . Gresh and Weinberg have done their homework . . . The technology they describe will inevitably arrive."
--Dr. Howard Frank
   Former Director, Information Technology Office
   Department of Defense Advance Research Projects Agency

"An all too real world . . . where a new breed of cyber-predators prowl the global net in search of victims . . . Gresh and Weinberg entertain and terrify us."
--James Buchanan, Gannett Professor,
   Rochester Institute of Technology
   Teacher and writer on the philosophical
   and ethical dimensions of the information age

L'autore:

As a computer specialist, Lois H. Gresh designs tests for security loopholes. As a project engineer, she handles failures of hardware circuitry, microcode, and operating systems. As a programmer, she designs and codes corporate Web sites and systems using C, Java, JavaScript, VRML 2.0, and various multimedia tools. She's written assembly language on numerous platforms, including routines to test the instruction set of a new CPU chip. She designed and coded Cobol/Fortran/JCL applications for federal and state welfare programs and for the U.S. Department of Defense. She has first-hand knowledge of high-level corporate takeovers in the computer industry, as well as the culture and business operations of companies in Silicon Valley and southern California.

A prolific author, Robert Weinberg has worked extensively in th

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