The Blue Nowhere

[MadMusician]

I am a geek and have just read a book "The Blue Nowhere" by Jeffrey Deaver that I found fascinating. A great mystery that has its villian (Phate - cracker) and hero (Wyatt - hacker who works with the CCU - Computer Crimes Unit) squaring off in cyberspace.

Great title... Blue = electricity & Nowhere = that place where the information is.

Phate, one of the best, has created a program that can enter anyone's computer without their knowing. He finds out all about them thru reading files, emails, etc... Living out a MUD (multi-user dimension) game, he "socially engineers" his victims and kills them. He has blurred the line between reality and the machine world.

Conflicts on a new battlefield. Great strategies to takeover 'root' access of the most protected computer systems. Deaver does a good job of explaining most terms to 'lay' people but I think it's more suited for those with some technical knowledge.

[Bat]

I would love that book, even though I am mostly technically challenged in this field...will recommend it to my son who is most definitely a geek!
Thanks, Mad.

[DaveM]

Gosh....I always thought "the blue nowhere" was where you wound up when Windows a "fatal" error. It's very strange....the screen tells you that hitting ctrl-alt-delete will restart your computer....but it never does....

[Des]

Gosh....I always thought "the blue nowhere" was where you wound up when Windows a "fatal" error. It's very strange....the screen tells you that hitting ctrl-alt-delete will restart your computer....but it never does....

Ahh, the good old 'blue screen of death' - I remember it well - as I could never understand why something 'fatal' was an 'exception':confused:

[DaveM]

There are some things, Des, which mere mortals were never meant to know.