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The Virus Creation Labs: A Journey into the Underground
About the computer virus writing scene in the early 1990s. A look at the people involved in writing viruses as well as the people chasing them.
172 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 1994
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George C. Smith
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George Smith, Ph. D., lives in southern California where he writes and edits the Crypt Newsletter. His doctorate is in chemistry from Lehigh University. While there, he worked on real "flesh-eating bacteria," investigating the proteins produced by the pathogen, Vibrio vulnificus, a microorganism which dissolves the skin, blood vessels and connective tissue of its host. After completing post-doctoral work at the Penn State School of Medicine, Smith went to work for a newspaper in eastern Pennsylvania. After writing a series of articles in 1991 dealing with secrecy and armaments production within the military industrial complex, he was awarded a Knight Special Fellowship on "the nuts and bolts of nuclear proliferation," sponsored by New York University's Center for War Peace and the News Media, and the University of Maryland.
George Smith, Ph. D., lives in southern California where he writes and edits the Crypt Newsletter. His doctorate is in chemistry from Lehigh University. While there, he worked on real "flesh-eating bacteria," investigating the proteins produced by the pathogen, Vibrio vulnificus, a microorganism which dissolves the skin, blood vessels and connective tissue of its host. After completing post-doctoral work at the Penn State School of Medicine, Smith went to work for a newspaper in eastern Pennsylvania. After writing a series of articles in 1991 dealing with secrecy and armaments production within the military industrial complex, he was awarded a Knight Special Fellowship on "the nuts and bolts of nuclear proliferation," sponsored by New York University's Center for War Peace and the News Media, and the University of Maryland.
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January 1, 2011
A great look at the early days of the internet (i.e., 1992-94), when it operated much like the Wild Wild West in terms of roguish behavior by both the hacker underground and security software firms alike.
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