Hacker Cracker

<p>Like other kids in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn Ejovi Nuwere grew up among thugs and drug dealers. When he was eleven he helped form a gang; at twelve he attempted suicide. In his large extended family one uncle was a career criminal one a graduate student with his own computer. By the time Ejovi was fourteen he was spending as much time on the computer as his uncle was. Within a year he was well on his way to a hacking career that would lead him to one of the most audacious and potentially dangerous computer break-ins of all time secret until now.</p><p>Before he finished high school he had created a hidden life in the hacker underground and an increasingly prominent career as a computer security consultant. At the age of twenty-two he was a top security specialist for one of the world's largest financial houses.</p><p><em>Hacker Cracker</em> is at once the most candid revelation to date of the dark secrets of cyberspace and the simple unaffected story of an inner-city child's triumph over shattering odds to achieve unparalleled success.</p>