DLC00-13 David Locke Hall - CRACK99.nfo
General Information
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Title: CRACK99: The Takedown of a $100 Million Chinese Software Pirate
Author: David Locke Hall
Read By: Mark Peckham
Copyright: 2015
Audiobook Copyright: 2015
Genre: Nonfiction - Crime - Technology - Internet
Publisher: Blackstone Audio
Abridged: No
Original Media Information
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Media: Digital
Length each: Original CD lengths
Source: Overdrive MP3
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Number of MP3s: 13
Total Duration: 10:43:25
Total MP3 Size: 295.29
Parity Archive: No
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Encoded At: CBR 64 kbit/s 44100 Hz Joint Stereo
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Noise Reduction: None
ID3 Tags: Set, v1.1, v2.3
Book Description
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Publisher's Summary
The utterly gripping story of the most outrageous case of cyber piracy
prosecuted by the US Department of Justice.
A former US Navy intelligence officer, David Locke Hall was a federal
prosecutor when a bizarre-sounding website, CRACK99, came to his attention.
It looked like Craigslist on acid, but what it sold was anything but
amateurish: thousands of high-tech software products used largely by
the military, and for mere pennies on the dollar. Want to purchase satellite
tracking software? No problem. Aerospace and aviation simulations? No
problem. Communications systems designs? No problem. Software for Marine
One, the presidential helicopter? No problem. With delivery times and
customer service to rival the world's most successful online retailers,
anybody, anywhere - including rogue regimes, terrorists, and countries
forbidden from doing business with the United States - had access to
these goods for any purpose whatsoever. But who was behind CRACK99,
and where were they?
The Justice Department discouraged potentially costly, risky cases like
this, preferring the low-hanging fruit that scored points from politicians
and the public. But Hall and his colleagues were determined to find
the culprit. They bought CRACK99's products for delivery in the United
States, buying more and more to appeal to the budding entrepreneur in
the man they identified as Xiang Li. After winning his confidence, they
lured him to Saipan - a US commonwealth territory where Hall's own father
had stormed the beaches with the marines during World War II. There,
they set up an audacious sting that culminated in Xiang Li's capture
and imprisonment. The value of the goods offered by CRACK99? A cool
$100 million.
An eye-opening look at cybercrime and its chilling consequences for
national security, CRACK99 is like a caper that resonates with every
amazing detail.
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