NIGHTLY READING THREAD: Welcome to Edition #66 of #GMGReads. Every night through this weird time, I'm tweeting out a list of my five favorite books around a general theme—and a link to an indie bookstore where you can order them online....
Last night @NatSecGrok said he'd read most of my cyber book recommendations, so here's a special "deep tracks cyber" edition of #GMGReads:
1) Steven Levy (@StevenLevy) is the original god of computer writing and internet history, and his classic HACKERS traces the wild west days of the computer age: powells.com/book/-97814493…
2) Katie Hafner (@katiehafner) wrote two of the great books about the early internet, WHERE WIZARDS STAY UP LATE, with Matthew Lyon, powells.com/book/-97806848… and CYBERPUNK, with John Markoff: powells.com/book/-97806848…
3) Cliff Stoll's CUCKOO'S EGG was really the first book to dive into hacking crimes—and it inspired a man named Robert Mueller to start the first computer crime unit at the Justice Department around 1990. The book is still given to new cyber prosecutors: powells.com/book/-97814165…
4) Slightly more recently, Joseph Menn's (@josephmenn) FATAL SYSTEM ERROR follows a computer hacking case in the early 2000s that leads right to the Russian mafia: powells.com/book/-97815864…
5) Mark Bowden's book WORM is even more recent, but traces one of the great early scares of the newly global web: powells.com/book/-97814493…
Those are tonight's #GMGReads. What are your favorite books about technology or the internet? Share! #avidreadersunite
