The movie “Hackers” has always been one of my guilty pleasures for the absurd spin they put on the hacker scene, and the way they portrayed the actual hacking. Then when I heard about a sequel to “Hackers” called “Operation: Takedown” I obviously wanted to see it. This was in 1999 when I was in High School, and it wasn’t until watching a podcast interviewing Kevin Mitnick earlier this year that I learned how inaccurate the portrayal of Mitnick was in the not so sequel “Hackers 2”. Kevin then plugged his book, and I promptly purchased it on Amazon, and then downloaded it from Audible.
It is a descriptive autobiography about one of the world’s most sought after hackers. It is interesting hearing it from his perspective where much more of what was done appears much more innocent in his eyes. My wife even enjoyed hearing the end of his story. I found it an interesting read, but I would imagine you would need to have some desire to hear the story in order to stick out reading it.