{"product_id":"9780684835587","title":"At Large","description":"For two years a computer break-in artist known only as \"Phantom Dialer\" seized control of hundreds - perhaps thousands - of computer networks around the world. Frightened network administrators watched helplessly as the intruder methodically slipped into universities, corporations, banks, and military facilities, including top-secret weapons-research sites. Working up to twenty hours a day, Phantom Dialer obsessively broke into one network after another - and no-one knew who he was or what he was after. Was he a spy? Was he laying the groundwork for a single massive theft? As the number of victims mounted, Phantom Dialer became the subject of the first major investigation of the FBI's new computer-crime squad and one of the biggest manhunts in the history of electronic crime. Though it reads like a thriller, AT LARGE is more than just a spellbinding account of one of the stranger episodes of the electronic 1990s. It is also a sharply observed group portrait of the new wired world and an expose of the technical flaws at its very core.","brand":"Charles C. Mann, David H. Freedman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45803722998078,"sku":"9780684835587","price":572.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4357\/7662\/products\/9780684835587_b263d48d-8083-4d49-ac99-3d8d7a746d6b.jpg?v=1707308943","url":"https:\/\/exclusivebooks.co.za\/products\/9780684835587","provider":"Exclusive Books Online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}