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Approaching Zero : the Extraordinary Underworld of Hackers, Phreakers, Virus Writers, and Keyboard Criminals by Paul Mungo and Bryan Clough is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Approaching Zero : the Extraordinary Underworld of Hackers, Phreakers, Virus Writers, and Keyboard Criminals about?

This books is well-written, interesting and fairly well-researched for anyone who likes this sort of thing. With the pace that technology advances at, particularly with regards to computers, this 15 year old book has become entirely historical. Absolutely none of the events or technologies are relevant to the present day except in the context of history. Nevertheless, if you're looking for background info on hacking, phreaking, viruses and other computer security related matters, it's well worth a read. Most of the information could be found in other books written about the same time as this one, however it's still very readable and does provide a comprehensive, though not particularly detailed, gathering of most of the relevant events over the past 30 years. In that regard it's also a good reference if you want to know how hacking and phreaking started, right from the very beginning. Also, it's a good introduction for the lay person interested in finding out what what hacking and phreaking is, and describes things like basic virus writing, boot sector viruses, executable file-based viruses, basic hacker exploits, the original tone-based phreaking methods, etc... However anyone r

Who reads Approaching Zero : the Extraordinary Underworld of Hackers, Phreakers, Virus Writers, and Keyboard Criminals?

Author

Paul Mungo and Bryan Clough

Publisher

Random House, Incorporated

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9780679409380

Category

history

Subjects

Social Science, Computer Science, Fiction

Rating

3.72 / 5 (58 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13