“A new teenage wasteland? Script kiddies, Web site defacers, chat-room gangsters: Today’s digital troublemakers get a bad rap. But in “The Hacker Diaries” we learn that they’re really all right … for the most part, [author Dan Verton] succeeds in portraying these young men (and one woman) as real people: not freaks, not madmen, not aliens from the cyberspace dimension, but real human beings, products of broken families or loving parents, motivated by truculence or patriotism or passion…”
P2P developers and music rippers are more-often being called “hackers,” so click here to read the full review in Salon’s Technology & Business section.
