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Masters of Deception: The Gang That Ruled Cyberspace Paperback – December 1, 1995

by Michele Slatalla (Author)

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The bestselling account of a band of kids from New York who fought an electronic turf war that ranged across some of the nation's most powerful computer systems. "An immensely fun and -- one cannot emphasize this enough -- accessible history of the first outlaws in cyberspace."--Glamour

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240 pages
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Harper Perennial
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December 1, 1995
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8.05 x 5.32 x 0.59 inches
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978-0060926946
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Perfect coffee table book

Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2022

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Wonderful illustrations and fascinates visitors every time.

Good book. Audio quality could be better

Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2022

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It’s a good book . Audio quality could be better . Fine enough on Mobile devices but when connected to car audio through Bluetooth, anything with an “s” sound is piercing to the ears

Hacker history, interesting read

Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2014

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Masters of Deception is a description of the "great Hacker wars" between two rival hacker gangs Legion of Doom (LOD) and Masters of Deception (MOD). It sounds impressive, but it was just a couple of teenagers with a lot of knowledge about the phone system that started to annoy each other. Put it in that way, the Great Hacker War doesn't look that great, but the book is still good for understanding the hacker dynamics of the end of the 80s and beginning 90s.

The book is written from the perspective of MOD and starts with the founding of MOD by Phiber Optik, Acid Phreak and Scorpion. They together explore the phone system. Phiber Optik was in the Legion of Doom group, but got kicked out and therefore they started the Masters of Deception hacker group. Though it started out as a joke, they grew quite fast and their hacks became quite sophisticated. Not only that, they were also getting more attention from the Secret Service, especially their pranks done to the LOD members who wanted to quit hacking and start a security company. Eventually... well... I'll leave what eventually happens to the reader.

The book is well written and very easy to read. It took me a couple of days on and off reading. The tone of the book is a bit uncomfortable and strange as the authors do take a strong position for the hackers and view them as teenagers playing pranks with a bit too much knowledge. The book is shallow on technical knowledge however, which is most likely because the authors are professional authors and not professional hackers. I think I would have enjoyed it more with a bit more technical information. That said, I did enjoy the book and I think it describes an important timeframe in hacker history. Decided to go with 4 stars. Recommended if you are interested in hacking history, otherwise better not pick it up.

5 people found this helpful

Beautiful Overview of Art Based on Illusions

Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2017

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This is a beautiful paperback art book that covers a broad spectrum of art related to optical illusions. I've seen it on sale in many locations, including museum gift shops. Escher, Dali, and Arcimboldo are represented (as you'd expect) but the bulk of the book is devoted to a wide variety of artists inspired by either the artists mentioned earlier or various quirks of visual perception. Op Art is well-represented, as are ambigrams, nontraditional portraiture, unabashedly commercial artwork, and sculptures based on constructions in Escher's famous works. I'd already seen many of these images on the internet, but it's better to see them within this intelligent context. The book, with its many full-page reproductions, does a wonderful job of exciting the reader with the possibilities of illusionistic art, and wisely lets the artwork speak for itself more often than not.

Two things did surprise me about this book (although they did not cause me to lower my rating). There is very little in here to connect these works of art to even the basic principles of visual perception in layman's terms. I was also surprised to see so little attention given to Magritte, who seems to have overtaken Dali in the public's mind as the supreme Surrealist. There is some minor nudity scattered around, but nothing that isn't PG-13.

When I was a teen many years ago, I treasured my Escher calendars and Dali postcards. I would have loved to have seen such a book back then, and I am glad that this book is still in print and reasonably popular.

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Better than a trip to the museum.

Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2022

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Everyone who has seen this book loves it.

Highly individual and entertaining book.

Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2009

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Not quite what I was expecting from other reviewers.But still well worth 5 stars plus.

For a start it is not a coffee book with pictures to be leafed through when bored. The writing is central to the book; explaining that vision itself is deception before considering deception in art (which is all , in turn, deception by definition).

Then the author makes no attempt at an exhaustive history of optical illusions in art. He gives us a delightful cameo of Giuseppe Arcimboldo whose paintings of faces made of fruit can be seen in Vienna, I think. Then its pretty well a leap straight to the 20th century with Dali, Escher and several living artists.

I was never really a fan of Dali , an opinion based on the single big canvas to be seen in most galleries.But some of the Dalis in this book such as hand painted twin stereoscopic images are stunningly clever. And the other artists are often even more clever;just astoundingly so! Just what imagination and skills do you need to make sculptures of impossible 3 dimensional figures?

Theres no attempt to give an exhaustive list of op artists and everyone will quibble about one or two artists covered, but the overall theme of the book is excellent.

By the way, the book is outstanding value on Amazon and has a back-up web site which I must visit soon!

Quibbles? Well some time serious artistic works are going to have to more than tip their caps to Magic Eye programmes for achieving what Psychology text books said was completely impossible: 3D images in colour from one single 'picture'.

9 people found this helpful

Oddities of the Art World!

Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2021

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Wonderful book that shows art at its most playful and ingenious. You will be amazed at the artists included in this book and how the stretched the reaches of the imagination. From 3-D to art made with sugar,dirt and thread, this is a wild trip thru the creative minds of amazingly imaginative artists!
Get this book, you won’t regret it!!!

Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2021

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Marshall Lord

Beautiful art book featuring a range of the art of optical illusions

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 12, 2017

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"Mastes of Deception" is a substantial art book which collects the work of artists who specialise in tricking the eye so that you look at one thing and see something else, often something impossible.

Artists featured include Salvador Dali, Maurice Escher, Rob Gonsalves, Guiseppe Archimboldo and others from the out-and-out surrealists to those whose tampering with reality is extremely subtle.

Much of the art in the book brilliant, and much is very beautiful, though not all is both.

Perhaps most extraordinary are the photographs of models where artists like Shigeo Fukuda have managed to create something which looks - frton one precise direction - like a real three-dimensional version of impossible buildings or objects like those in the M.C. Escher pictures "Belvedere" and "Waterfall." In some cases they show you the model from other angles too so you can see how the artist did it. The original Escher pictures "Belvedere" and "Waterfall" are also in this book so it is easy to compare them!

A must if your are fascinated by optical puzzles.

4 people found this helpful

Damian Lucas

Bought as a gift for a 10yr old

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 19, 2019

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Kids today think they are clever and know everything because they watched a YouTube video. Bought as a gift for a 10yrbold boy very interested in computers to show another angle from people who learnt a lot about security and technical prowess. Obviously hacking is illegal and bad, but the idea was to show sometimes you need to work it out in your own rather than be told so you have a better understanding.

5 people found this helpful

Ruth Campbell

A great book to pore over..

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 9, 2020

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Lots of less familiar optical illusions from a variety of master 'illusionists'. My 11 year old grandson and his Dad are fascinated by it. Good production values- the book is the right size and the illustrations are clear and well printed.

2 people found this helpful

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Great book on catching hackers and the criminal lifestyle

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 20, 2016

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This is an amazing book and I would also recommend buying At Large at the same time. This is a true story of a team of teenage criminals in the late 80s, their story, and how they ended up being caught. It should be a staple book on any library of anyone in cyber security. I really enjoyed the telling of the story, it felt quite novel-like. Great book.

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gundalming

Deceptively Brilliant

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 18, 2010

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This is a marvelously entertaining book that will please both the general reader and those interested in art history. It is, amongst other things,one of those rare books that are better when thumbed through with someone else. The editor has put together some genuinely amazing artists whose cleverness jumps off the page. I imagine teachers could enliven any classroom with the contents of this book. I hope there is a second volume on the way, perhaps including the work of the World War I camouflage artists.

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