Great read. Gives a weird kind of nostalgia, with parallels seen in Brazil too. ( )

Bruce Sterling's seminal work "The Hacker Crackdown" is a tough act to follow, but Masters of Deception does a pretty good job of doing just that - by discussing the split between the Hacker group The Legion of Doom and The Masters of Deception - with a split over philosophy (among other things) - should Hackers be about elitism - whose Kung Fu is the strongest, or should it be about exploration and sharing knowledge, the original hacker spirit. ( )

Masters of deception: the gang that ruled cyberspace.
By Michelle Slatalla and Joshua Quittner
I rated this book an eight/ten. ( )