From the Back Cover:
"An early warning of 21st century crime and terrorism . . . An intelligent book . . . Refreshing and frightening . . . Gresh and Weinberg have done their homework . . . The technology they describe will inevitably arrive."
--Dr. Howard Frank
Former Director, Information Technology Office
Department of Defense Advance Research Projects Agency
"An all too real world . . . where a new breed of cyber-predators prowl the global net in search of victims . . . Gresh and Weinberg entertain and terrify us."
--James Buchanan, Gannett Professor,
Rochester Institute of Technology
Teacher and writer on the philosophical
and ethical dimensions of the information age
About the Author:
As a computer specialist, Lois H. Gresh designs tests for security loopholes. As a project engineer, she handles failures of hardware circuitry, microcode, and operating systems. As a programmer, she designs and codes corporate Web sites and systems using C, Java, JavaScript, VRML 2.0, and various multimedia tools. She's written assembly language on numerous platforms, including routines to test the instruction set of a new CPU chip. She designed and coded Cobol/Fortran/JCL applications for federal and state welfare programs and for the U.S. Department of Defense. She has first-hand knowledge of high-level corporate takeovers in the computer industry, as well as the culture and business operations of companies in Silicon Valley and southern California.
A prolific author, Robert Weinberg has worked extensively in the suspense, horror, and science-fiction fields. His short stories have appeared in numerous anthologies including Dark Love, Phobias, and David Copperfield's Tales of the Impossible. He has been nominated for the Hugo, World Fantasy, and Balrog Awards, and is a two-time winner of the World Fantasy Award. His work has been translated into Japanese, French, Polish, Spanish, Russian, Italian, Romanian, and German. Robert lives near Chicago.
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