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Date: Fri Oct 03 2008 - 01:30:22 CDT

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http://www.nationalpost.com/todays_paper/story.html?id=854375

Canwest News Service
October 02, 2008

The country's most notorious hacker, Mafiaboy, has written a tell-all
book about his Internet attack of 2000 when he paralyzed the Web sites
of CNN, Yahoo, eBay and other businesses for several hours. The book,
Mafiaboy: How I Cracked the Internet and Why It's Still Broken, is
expected to hit bookshelves next week. In it, the infamous hacker, now
23, explains that he was not a computer whiz kid but quickly gained
knowledge of computers and got to know other young hackers. "I felt a
strange kinship with these nameless, faceless programmers and online
rebels," he writes in an excerpt made available by the publisher. "To
me, they were the coolest kids in cyberspace. I wanted to hang with
them. I wanted to be a hacker." The book, co-written with Montreal
journalist Craig Silverman, is billed as "a cautionary tale." After a
manhunt, the RCMP and FBI apprehended the then-15-year-old student. He
pleaded guilty to more than 50 charges.

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