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Summary: An excellent description of Kevin Mitnick's run from the law
Review: I found the book to be a pretty accurate depiction of Kevin Mitnick and his encounters. Jonathan Littman is a fine author who gets the facts right. His books do not appear to be biased in any way; he's a real example for other authors out there.
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Summary: Only Book I Found Sympathetic To Kevin Mitnick
Review: This Is Only Book I Found Sympathetic To Kevin Mitnick & I Loved It. Very Factual I Found It Better Than Most Books About Him. It Kept You Wanting More .....
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Summary: The Other Side of the Story
Review: Littman tells the other side of the story, not the "world's most dangerous hacker" fiction put out by the government and their agents Tsutomu Shimomura and John Markoff.Littman exposes the conflicts of interest in Mitnick's pursuers, the lack of financial gain in Mitnick's crimes, and the irony of Shimomura's "dangerous software" that Mitnick allegedly copied. Everybody seems to have an ulterior motive in this story, and Littman's sympathies clearly belong to Mitnick. After reading this book, chances are you will at least see the "David vs. Goliath" aspect as well.
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Summary: Amazing, this book was very educational
Review: After reading this book, I realized that comuter technolgy is not just important for the typical "egg head", but it is also important for anybody with a credit card or a social security number. This book exemplifies what it can be like if we remain illiterate in the technologically changing computer world. Mr. Littman describes in such detail that I couldn't wait for him to come out with another book. I applaud his efforts and would recommend to anybody this book with a desire to learn the realiity of living in todays world.
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Summary: Good reporting - No Hype... Read This One.
Review: I read this book and "Takedown ...". This book offers some real insight into the Kevin Mitnick story, without all of the hype. "Fugitive Game" is easy to read and contains a lot of actual conversations with Kevin Mitnick and those around him during his flight from the law. Not a lot of techie stuff in here, but some very interesting human insight.
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Summary: This book is great..I've read it twice and will again!!!!!
Review: Littman sticks to the facts, and tells a great story. He shows a side of Kevin Mitnick that contrasts the monster he's been made out to be. It's a great book.
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Summary: Glad I read it; some really good reporting
Review: I was suspicious of this book at first; based on other reviews posted to amazon.com, I thought it would be wildly biased in favor of Mitnick, just as Takedown was in favor of law enforcement. I was wrong. Littman has done justice to the subject matter. I was concerned that his ongoing communication with Mitnick would introduce too much bias, but Littman uses it to portray Mitnick as human, not heroic. Truly objective reporting is a myth; it doesn't exist. But the inevitability of bias doesn't mean you can't be fair - and Littman is absolutely fair to all parties, and turns up some disturbing details about the cozy relationship of law enforcement and the media along the way. Only the author's writing style leaves me a bit cold - the account perhaps a little more first-person than I'd like it to be - but it certainly beats the ego-driven tone of Takedown. If you're really interested in this subject, you should read both books; If you read only one, it should be this one.
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Summary: it tells the facts and lets the reader decide
Review: Unlike this books un-named competitor, this book gives hundreds of pages of facts and primary source documents, including interviews with Mitnick himself. Littman does a good job of leaving no stone unturned, and has none of the bias that appears in other books about Mitnick. He gives the cold hard truth, and allows the reader to look at ALL of the facts and make their own conclusions. Unlike the competitors book, he doesn't leave out anything. The struggle is also never defined as good versus evil, everything is in the grey area, just as things are in real life. You cannot reduce something like this to pure evil and pure good, and Littman realizes this, showing the good and bad of each side in a very thurough and well done, well written manner. I couldn't believe that a non-fiction book (where I knew the ending), could be this involving and suspensfull. I cannot recomend it enough.
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Summary: Interesting...no heroes here.
Review: Littman resists the temptation to cram Mitnick's story into easily-recognizable terms such as "good vs. evil" and basically tries to present the story as it is, warts and all. The end result is an excellent, but somewhat depressing book. There are no heroes to be found here. Much of the book consists of Littman's conversations with Mitnick during the cyberfugitive's life on the run, but Littman also gives a jaded account of the media hoopla surrounding Mitnick's capture. Mitnick emerges as a bright, arrogant, but somewhat naive hacker who has only a hazy understanding of the crimes he commits and the fear they inspire in others. He's also not what you would call a criminal genius...definitely not the evil supernerd portrayed in the media. Shimomura appears as some sort of high-tech version of a frontier marshal, and that's not intended as a compliment. I mean that he comes across as the kind of lawman that stays just barely on the right side of the law. It is ! disturbing to consider what more malevolent people with Mitnick and Shimomura's skill could be capable of. Among the other people in the book, while none of them are bad people, they don't always do the right thing or make the right decisions, and it disappoints you. This isn't a very optimistic book, but it is a very clear-eyed look at Mitnick and his crimes, as well as the issues raised by them. Recommended for anyone interested in cyberspace issues.
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Summary: Excellent coverage of the Mitnick story.
Review: I found this book to be exceptional. Though hard to follow in a few sections, the book is an overall 5. I plan on purchasing another book by Jonathan Littman soon.
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