About the Author

Katie Hafner is a contributing editor at Newsweek, where she covers technology. She has also written for Business Week, The New Republic, The New York Times, and Wired. She is currently working on a history of the Interne

Reviews

Los Angeles Times Book Review An engrossing, valuable work.

PC Magazine Riveting...an important chronicle of what is happening on the edge of the information age.

Cliff Stoll Author of The Cuckoo's Egg An astonishing story [whose] trail leads across modems...as well as police blotters in America and Germany. This is the computing underground, our high-tech counterculture.