Acknowledgements
Once again, credit must go to my publishers Kogan Page. Just as with my previous book Digital Wars, they contacted me out of the blue with an idea that I couldn’t get out of my head: what about a book about big, important hacks? What could they tell us about hacking and business, and about hackers themselves?
Thanks to Géraldine Collard, who persisted, and Rebecca Bush, who edited, and Anna Moss, who pitched the original idea.
A countback shows me that I’ve been writing about hackers for about 30 years, and though the stories and methods change a little over the years, their aims (and errors) don’t. Thanks to all those who have spoken to me down the years, such as ‘Coldfire’ in 1995, right up to the folks of LulzSec in 2011 ...
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