What is the most engaging story about hackers/hacking?
The first thing that comes to mind is Kevin Mitnick’s Ghost in the Wires. I binge-listened to the book on audio in a few days. It is the most engaging story, about hacking or otherwise, that I’ve ever read. The summary from Amazon does the book more justice than I could:
Werner Herzog’s Human Touch Lifts Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World Above Tech-Bro Celebration
As its title suggests, Werner Herzog’s latest documentary is a broad, poetic consideration of technology’s—which is to say, humanity’s—history and future. Through interviews with the likes of Elon Musk and Kevin Mitnick, the director episodically lays bare a series of utopian visions about technology’s potential to help us learn, take us to other planets, and free us from daily tasks like driving. But Herzog’s gentle, skeptical interjections keep Lo and Behold from turning into a tech-bro hagiography. He punctuates discussions with interjections like “[Robots] can’t fall in love”—simple statements that get to the heart of the matter.
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How is the network? How are you? A tangle of cables and some lights? Or is something more abstract? Almost can not live without but have no idea of how we should act. How the hell do they manage to film and TV series?
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“Werner Herzog Sings The Body Electric: His new documentary Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World”
September 12, 2016 by Guest Contributor “I sing the body electric, The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them, They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them, And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul.” – Walt Whitman
You know what they say: the well-known and has reformed hacker demonstrated how easy it is to steal data from users of public WiFi and then take control of their machines. Whether it's a park, mall or airport, connected to a public Wi-Fi, a moment not feel safe in ourselves. And someone says (and demonstrate), who has long been a dark side: Kevin Mitnick, the notorious hacker who is now a recognized security expert.
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