From the bedroom terminals of teenagers isolated from their peers by their hyperactive intellects to the nerve center of a nationwide long-distance phone company infiltrated by a hacker's hand, Masters of Deception offers an unprecedented tour of the murkiest reaches of the electronic frontier and a trenchant blow-by-blow chronicle of the most notorious gang war in cyberspace. In 1989, Paul Stira and Eli Ladopoulos, two teenage hackers from Queens, New York, made some exploratory forays into local phone company computers and discovered a domain far more mysterious and appealing than any they had ever seen. To unravel the mysteries, they contacted Phiber Optik (aka Mark Abene) - a member of an infamous gang of crack hackers called the Legion of Doom. Phiber Optik was legendary throughout cyberspace for his wealth of hard-won knowledge about the phone system. When he was satisfied that Stira and Ladopoulos weren't a couple of lamers, the three kids arranged a meeting of the minds in Ladopoulos's bedroom. When Phiber Optik got kicked out of LOD after a tiff with its leader, Erik Bloodaxe (aka Chris Goggans), the New York kids formed a rival gang called Masters of Deception. MOD soon matched LOD's notoriety, gaining a reputation for downloading confidential credit histories (including Geraldo Rivera's, David Duke's, and a rival hacker's mom's), breaking into private computer files, and rewiring phone lines. As MOD's fame grew, so did its membership. The rivalry between LOD and MOD was friendly enough until a tussle became an all-out gang war. LOD started a security company catering to the very corporations whose computers MOD had infiltrated. MOD retaliated by infiltrating LOD's own security system. All the while federal agents were secretly monitoring this highly illegal battle royal and closing in for the kill. Slatalla and Quittner, who have followed this case for five years, lead us down the darkest alleys of cyberspace and up to the front lines of the raging b

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从因智力超常而与同龄人隔绝的青少年卧室终端，到被黑客渗透的全国性长途电话公司的神经中枢，《欺骗大师》提供了一次前所未有的电子领域最阴暗的旅行，并对网络空间中最臭名昭着的帮派战争进行了尖锐的逐条记录。1989年，保罗-斯蒂拉和伊莱-拉多普洛斯，两个来自纽约皇后区的少年黑客，对当地电话公司的电脑进行了一些探索性的尝试，发现了一个比他们所见过的任何领域都要神秘和吸引人的领域。为了揭开这些谜团，他们联系了Phiber Optik（又名Mark Abene）--一个被称为 "末日军团 "的臭名昭著的破解黑客团伙的成员。Phiber Optik是整个网络空间的传奇人物，他拥有大量来之不易的关于电话系统的知识。当他确信斯蒂拉和拉多普洛斯不是一对骗子时，这三个孩子在拉多普洛斯的卧室里安排了一次思想交流。当菲伯-欧提克（Phiber Optik）在与LOD的领导人埃里克-布拉德克斯（Erik Bloodaxe，又名克里斯-戈根斯）发生争执后被踢出了LOD，纽约的孩子们组成了一个名为 "欺骗大师 "的敌对帮派。MOD很快就与LOD的恶名相提并论，因下载机密信用记录（包括杰拉尔多-里维拉（Geraldo Rivera）、大卫-杜克（David Duke）和一个竞争对手的母亲的信用记录）、闯入私人电脑文件和改接电话线而声名鹊起。随着MOD的名气越来越大，其成员也越来越多。LOD和MOD之间的竞争足够友好，直到一场争斗变成了一场全面的帮派战争。LOD成立了一家安全公司，为那些被MOD渗入电脑的公司提供服务。MOD通过渗入LOD自己的安全系统进行报复。与此同时，联邦特工正在秘密监视这场高度非法的皇室战争，并为杀戮而接近。斯拉塔拉和奎特纳跟踪此案已有五年之久，他们带领我们进入网络空间最黑暗的小巷，来到了这场激烈的战斗的前线。

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