Breaking and Entering: The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called "Alien"
Contents Title Page Contents Copyright Dedication Epigraph Author’s Note The Hacker Next Door C ou rs e 1 9 Inside Out The Coffeehouse Club Earth to Alien A Death in the Family In S ecurity Up All Night I Spy Wild Wild Web A Hackable Heart Transplant A gents and J ed is Capture the Flag Check, Please Up in the Air Europe on Five Hacks a Day Ow n er’s Manu a l
The Bartender The Best Around Phoning Home Fast Forward Acknowledgments About the Author Connect with HMH Copyright © 2019 by Jeremy N. Smith All rights reserved For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to trade.permissions@hmhco.com or to Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 3 Park Avenue, 19th Floor, New York, New York 10016. hmhbooks.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Smith, Jeremy N., author. Title: Breaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called “Alien” / Jeremy N. Smith. Description: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019. | “An Eamon Dolan Book.” Identifiers: LCCN 2018024873 (print) | LCCN 2018035206 (ebook) | ISBN 9780544911222 (ebook) | ISBN 9780544903210 | ISBN 97805449032109 (hardcover) Subjects: LCSH: Alien (Hacker) | Hackers—United States—Biography. | Computer security—United States. | Computer crimes—United States. | LCGFT: Biographies. Classification: LCC HV6772.A5 (ebook) | LCC HV6772.A5 S55 2019 (print) | DDC 005.8092 [B] —dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018024873 Cover design by Albert Tang
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AUTHOR’S NOTE / /
Names and other identifying characteristics have been altered to protect people’s privacy. For the same reason, in a limited number of instances I have changed dates or combined individuals.
PREFACE / /
The Hacker Next Door
young and lovely . . . It’s Saturday night at Bally’s Las Vegas and I follow a woman in black leather—jacket, skirt, boots—down the center of the casino floor. Her hair—also black—is twisted atop her head and held in place with chopsticks. She has on red lipstick and knee-high red TALL
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polka-dot socks. A portable speaker clipped to her purse plays “The Girl from Ipanema.” The woman—thirty-three years old? thirty-four?—passes tables for blackjack, three-card poker, and craps. Players turn from their chips to the source of the music. Several smile, entreating her to join them, but she continues through a thicket of ringing, whirring slot machines, emerging again in front of the casino elevators. There’s a long line here, perhaps two hundred people, stretching to the end of the hallway and around a corner. Almost everyone is trying to get to the pool party a floor below or to the dozen other parties in Bally’s Skyview rooms twenty-five floors above.
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