Exploding The Phone The Untold Story Of The Teenagers And Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell by Philip Lapsley
Before smartphones, before the Internet and before the personal computer, a misfit group of technophiles, blind teenagers, hippies, and outlaws …
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balex rated Algorithms of Oppression: 4 stars
Algorithms of Oppression by Safiya Umoja Noble
A revealing look at how negative biases against women of color are embedded in search engine results and algorithms
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balex rated Cypherpunks: 4 stars
Cypherpunks by Julian Assange
Cypherpunks are activists who advocate the widespread use of strong cryptography (writing in code) as a route to progressive change. …
balex rated Just My Type: 4 stars
Just My Type by Simon Garfield
What’s your type? Suddenly everyone’s obsessed with fonts. Whether you’re enraged by Ikea’s Verdanagate, want to know what the Beach …
balex rated The Cuckoo’s Egg: 5 stars
The Cuckoo’s Egg by Clifford Stoll
In the days when the presence of a computer did NOT presume the presence of a network (they used to …
balex rated The New Jim Crow: 5 stars
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander, Michelle Alexander, Michelle Alexander
As the United States celebrates the nation's "triumph over race" with the election of Barack Obama, the majority of young …
balex rated The Importance of Being Earnest: 4 stars
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on …
Blitzed by Norman Ohler
"The Nazis presented themselves as warriors against moral degeneracy. Yet, as Norman Ohler's gripping bestseller reveals, the entire Third Reich …
balex rated Countdown to Zero Day: 3 stars
Countdown to Zero Day by Kim Zetter
The virus now known as Stuxnet was unlike any other piece of malware built before: Rather than simply hijacking targeted …
