Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
Just published a few days apart, Stieg Larsson sequel The Girl in the Spider’s Web and Jonathan Franzen’s Purity show how far the hacker has come in fiction: a 30-year journey from cult SF, via world-conquering book and movie trilogies, to post-WikiLeaks literary novels in which ageing lords of the Gutenberg Galaxy try to get to grips with techno-crime. Neuromancer by William Gibson (1984) The debut novel that coined the term “cyberspace” centres on Case, a disabled data thief who has hit rock bottom but is offered a chance of rehabilitation and redemption by an ambiguous new employer: his ultimate task is to hack past the passwords into a stupendously powerful artificial intelligence (one half of which is called Neuromancer) belonging to a clan of plutocrats. Hacker by Malorie Blackman (1992) Rather than a pro cyber-criminal, Blackman’s E Nesbit-style heroine is 13-year-old Vicky, who hacks into a bank’s computer system to find out why it sacked her dad and accused him of embezzling a seven-figure sum. The debut novel that coined the term “cyberspace” centres on Case, a disabled data thief who has hit rock bottom but is offered a chance of rehabilitation and redemption by an ambiguous new employer: his ultimate task is to […]
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