Extortionware

by Trip Elix

Extortionists, human traffickers and thieves find victims on the internet every day.

Set in a typical American city Hacker Jason, a talented computer programmer, is thrown into captivity with Tasha, a woman caught in the snare of human sex trafficking from the darkest part of the internet, where antivirus efforts and firewalls are shown to be ineffective and useless. Together they must invade computers remotely to steal what they can, to satisfy their captors. Together they embark on an unparalleled journey involving extortion, theft and violence using the same connection you use for your home and personal communications.

Author Trip Elix brings you along for a ride into the dark side of the internet exploring places that are the very places, nightmares are made of.

Kindle Edition

First published March 20, 2014

About the author

Trip Elix is a published author, investigator and privacy advocate. His articles have appeared in daily and weekly publications in the United States. He writes both novels and books. He also writes a blog that focuses on security and privacy issues at http://tripelix.com.
In the past he has been a forensic computer technician who has used or owned almost every version of every operating system used since the 1980’s. He regularly attends security conferences held by the computer underground, including Defcon , bsides and others.
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Reviews

[Mark Polino · Rating 1 out of 5]

This was just awful. Guy roped into being a hacker locked up with sex slave girlfriend teaches her a bunch of programming languages and photoshop in few days. He keeps telling bad guys he needs more time and they are fine with it. Lots of open threads that don't get closed and it desperately needs a good line edit.

Lots of nothing happens for most of this book. It feels like the author did a bunch of research but actually has no idea how hard or easy some of this stuff is.

[Gene · Rating 2 out of 5]

I like the situation & the characters (even the antagonists), but the lack of editing after the first quarter are a reminder that self-published books are rarely worth the time. As often as not, it reads like the author's notes, not like prose meant for the readers. That's unfortunate because I do like the premise.

[Simon Fidler · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was an interesting book that's the story of a hacker Jason who becomes captive and is forced to complete various programming and hacking tasks for his captive.

This book reminded me of an episode of Mr Robot when Elliot was taken hostage and forced to work on a website for some criminals on the dark web. So if you like Mr Robot you will enjoy this book for sure. This was also written before the TV show, so this book was ahead of its time and is a great story.

Overall, I found this to be a cool story about the dark side of the internet and Trip clearly knows a lot about this subject. I picked up a few new tricks about programming and scripts from this book so I would definitely recommend giving Extortionware a read - 5 Stars

[Lisa E · Rating 5 out of 5]

As a victim of identity myself, I was perplexed on how this type of thing could happen. Especially to me and I could not only believe how much it interfered with my life but how much time, aggravation and energy it took to sort-of regain control. I was walking around an event when an author handed me an interesting pamphlet about various credit scores and it caught my eye because I had already been trying to figure out three of them since my credit was jeopardized.
I decided to buy his book and it was an easy and informative read. It kept me thinking and I enjoyed the story behind all of the computer science associated with identity theft. It had me on the edge and the ending kept me in suspense. I highly recommend you check this book out and even contact this author. I reached out to this author to ask further questions and he actually responded back to me with solid advice on how to move forward. It's worth the read.