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Paul Graham is a British-born computer scientist, programmer, essayist, and entrepreneur. He co-founded Viaweb, an early web-based application for creating online stores, and later co-founded the startup accelerator Y Combinator in 2005. Through Y Combinator and widely read essays on programming, co...
The Girl Who Played with Fire is a 2006 Swedish psychological thriller by Stieg Larsson, notable as the second installment in the globally bestselling Millennium series.
Dan Kaminsky was an American computer security researcher best known for discovering in 2008 a fundamental cache-poisoning vulnerability in the Domain Name System (DNS). The flaw allowed attackers to redirect internet traffic by corrupting DNS resolver caches. Kaminsky coordinated a large-scale, mul...
A rugged, portable terminal running on heavily modified, open-source OS kernels. It connects to localized, unsecured data nodesthe digital equivalent of back-alley whispers. It is perfect for gathering rumors, black market pricing, and low-level intel without triggering corporate firewalls. Its weak...
The Hacker Manifesto is Loyd Blankenship's 1986 essay in Phrack, written as The Mentor, and became a defining statement of hacker identity.
Cress is a 2014 young adult science-fiction novel by Marissa Meyer and the third main volume of The Lunar Chronicles, following Cinder and Scarlet. It reworks elements of Rapunzel through Cress, a gifted hacker kept aboard a satellite and compelled to conduct surveillance for the Lunar government. H...
