CRACK99 - The Takedown of a $100 Million Chinese Software Pirate

Digital pirates, particularly in China, steal and resell hundreds of billions of dollars worth of intellectual property each year. CRACK99 is an edge-of-the-seat account of the United States Justice Department's prosecution of the biggest cybercriminal operation to date. On a cheesy website called CRACK99, Xiang Li sold everything from satellite tracking and aviation simulation to communications systems design software for knock-down prices. When David Locke Hall and his team started buying CRACK99's products, the hunt for this elusive pirate began. After earning Xiang's trust, Hall's team met Xiang on Saipan, where the sting was nearly foiled before Xiang was captured, flown to the US and prosecuted. An eye-opening look at the dark side of cybercrime and the chilling consequences for technology and national security, CRACK99 reads like a caper-only it's true in every riveting detail.

About the author

David Locke Hall was a federal prosecutor for twenty-three years. He served as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve for thirty years, retiring at the rank of captain. He lives near Philadelphia, where he works in private practice.

Summary

The inside story of the largest digital piracy sting to date.

Product details

• Authors: David Locke Hall, Hall David Locke
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.07.2017
• EAN: 9780393354331
• ISBN: 978-0-393-35433-1
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 211 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 248 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; USA, China, True Crime, TRUE CRIME / General, COMPUTERS / Security / General, United States of America, USA, Computer security