KINGPIN(ISBN=) 英文原版

　　Former hacker Kevin Poulsen has, over the past decade, built a
reputation as one of the top investigative reporters on the
cybercrime beat. In Kingpin, he pours his unmatched access and
expertise into book form for the first time, delivering a gripping
cat-and-mouse narrative—and an unprecedented view into the
twenty-first century’s signature form of organized crime.
　　The word spread through the hacking underground like some
unstoppable new virus: Someone—some brilliant, audacious crook—had
just staged a hostile takeover of an online criminal network that
siphoned billions of dollars from the US economy.
　　The FBI rushed to launch an ambitious undercover operation aimed
at tracking down this new kingpin; other agencies around the world
deployed dozens of moles and double agents. Together, the cybercops
lured numerous unsuspecting hackers into their clutches. . . . Yet
at every turn, their main quarry displayed an uncanny ability to
sniff out their snitches and see through their plots.
　　The culprit they sought was the most unlikely of criminals: a
brilliant programmer with a hippie ethic and a supervillain’s
double identity. As prominent “white-hat” hacker Max “Vision”
Butler, he was a celebrity throughout the programming world, even
serving as a consultant to the FBI. But as the black-hat “Iceman,”
he found in the world of data theft an irresistible opportunity to
test his outsized abilities. He infiltrated thousands of computers
around the country, sucking down millions of credit card numbers at
will. He effortlessly hacked his fellow hackers, stealing their
ill-gotten gains from under their noses. Together with a
smooth-talking con artist, he ran a massive real-world crime
ring.
　　And for years, he did it all with seeming impunity, even as
countless rivals ran afoul of police.
　　Yet as he watched the fraudsters around him squabble, their ranks
riddled with infiltrators, their methods inefficient, he began to
see in their dysfunction the ultimate challenge: He would stage his
coup and fix what was broken, run things as they should be run—even
if it meant painting a bull’s-eye on his forehead.
　　Through the story of this criminal’s remarkable rise, and of law
enforcement’s quest to track him down, Kingpin lays bare the
workings of a silent crime wave still affecting millions of
Americans. In these pages, we are ushered into vast online-fraud
supermarkets stocked with credit card numbers, counterfeit checks,
hacked bank accounts, dead drops, and fake passports. We learn the
workings of the numerous hacks—browser exploits, phishing attacks,
Trojan horses, and much more—these fraudsters use to ply their
trade, and trace the complex routes by which they turn stolen data
into millions of dollars. And thanks to Poulsen’s remarkable access
to both cops and criminals, we step inside the quiet, desperate
arms race that law enforcement continues to fight with these
scammers today. 
　　Ultimately, Kingpin is a journey into an underworld of startling
scope and power, one in which ordinary American teenagers work hand
in hand with murderous Russian mobsters and where a simple Wi-Fi
connection can unleash a torrent of gold worth million

　　KEVIN POULSEN is a senior editor at Wired.com and a
contributor to Wired magazine. He oversees cybercrime, privacy, and
political coverage for Wired.com and edits the award-winning Threat
Level blog (wired.com/threatlevel), which he founded in 2005.

　　”[A] brisk and entertaining tale.”–The New York Times
　　”Even though he has done jail time for his cyber crimes and
credit card hacking, it’s hard not to like Max “Max Vision”
Butler…. The capers of this misfit genius, and the FBI’s attempts
to infiltrate credit card hacking rings, combine to make this a
fast, fun read.”–Newark Star-Ledger
　　“Hello, Hollywood, Kevin Poulsen has a tale for you. Deftly
told.”—San Francisco Chronicle
　　”What will make this book endure is Poulsen’s elegant elucidation
of how the hacking world evolved from its pimply, ideological
beginnings into a global criminal enterprise”–Atlantic.com
　　“Poulsen renders the hacker world with such virtual reality that
readers will have difficulty logging off until the very
end.”—Publishers Weekly
　　“The lead figures of KINGPIN are brilliant, crooked geeks and the
sleazy women who love to help them steal. Their mortal enemies are
a cyber-savvy swarm of undercover cops.  Kevin Poulsen gets so
close to these paranoid, shadowy people that you can smell the
sweat on the keyboards and hear the handcuffs clack shut. No other
book can match this intimate, expert portrait of a truly modern
criminal underworld.”–Bruce Sterling, Hugo Award-winning novelist
and futurist
　　“An exciting crime thriller, a compelling psychological study,
and one of the most accurate stories of hacker culture that I’ve
ever read…Poulsen deftly explains the technology behind these
ultramodern computer crimes and shows how they’re
committed.”–Annalee Newitz, Editor in Chief of io9.com
　　“With the tense drama and future shock of a William Gibson novel,
Kevin Poulsen spins a scary-true tale of the dark-side hacker
underground and its most adept sorcerer.”–Steven Levy, author of
Hackers and Crypto
　　”The most thorough portrait to date of a top modern U.S. cyber
criminal and an engaging tale of cops against robbers against other
robbers. No one writes with more authority than Kevin Poulsen about
how hackers actually go about their business.”–Joseph Menn, author
of All the Rave and Fatal System Error
　　“Building on the best of the police procedural tradition, Kevin
Poulsen lays out in clear language the technologies and methods
employed by the criminals and crime fighters alike, all the while
crafting a sympathetic character study of the conflicted gray hat,
Max Vision, at the heart of it all.”–Jonathan Zittrain, Harvard
professor and author of The Future of the Internet and How to Stop
It
　　“A superb, insider tour of the dark Internet that lies below “the
whitewashed, commercialized” world of the Web. Kevin Poulsen is one
of the very few people who understands the territory: the scammers,
the scammers of the scammers, and the law enforcement officers
trying to catch them. KINGPIN describes a parallel business world,
including “the underground’s first hostile takeover,” where
characters who call themselves names like DarkCyd and Matrix and
Ghost23 battle for control of digital scams. It is a fascinating,
scary ride.”–Ellen Ullman, author of Close to the Machine and The
Bug