![]() ![]() ![]() Kingpin focuses on the sleazy life of one Max Butler (a.k.a. To keep the conversation around this episode in one place, we’d like to ask you to comment at the web page for this episode on Surprisingly Free. Kevin Poulsen’s new book, Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground, is a flawed but fraught overview of our current digital underworld, where such vile hoodlums thrive. “Kevin Poulsen Book Talk – Author of Kingpin,” Stanford Law School. ![]() “‘Kingpin,’ by Kevin Poulsen: review,” San Francisco Chronicle.Poulsen finally comments on cyber security policy, noting that while many security vulnerabilities exist today, he suspects that legislation is not the answer. He then discusses his book, a true crime account of Max Butler, a white hat hacker turned black hat who went from security innovator to for-profit cyber criminal to hacker of other hackers, eventually taking over the cyber crime underground. Poulsen first talks about how he became interested in hacking and why he was eventually sent to prison for it. On the podcast this week, Kevin Poulsen, a senior editor at Wired News, former hacker, and author of Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground, discusses his new book. ![]()
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