Corrections for Information Warfare and Security

Last updated June 15, 2001


Changes for First, Second, and Third Printings 
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P. 8, line 7.  Change "CIA agent" to "CIA officer".

P. 8, line -7.  Replace "30-year-old Yukhar Faran" with "30-year-old Joseph
Hirsh".

P. 22, line 25.  Change "operations that affect" to "operations to affect".

P. 41, line -15.  Change "is this context" to "in this context".

P. 133, lines 17 and 25.  Change "agent" to "officer".

P. 163, line -11.  Change "extralow frequency (ELF)" to "extremely low 
frequency (ELF)".

P. 217, line 1.  Change "secure compartmentalized" to "special compartmented".

P. 300, line 16.  Change "exponent yb" to "exponent xb".

P. 336, line -4.  Change "it's" to "it has".

P. 386, lines 29-30.  Change "Olaf Helmer-Herschberg" to "Olaf Helmer
and Norman Dalkey" and "the early 1960s" to "1953".  Also, "Estimating" 
should be lower case.

P. 417, line 1.  Change "decisions" to "decision".

P. 427, line -2.  The title of Taylor's book is "Hackers: Crime in the
Digital Sublime."  It is due out on August 27, 1999.

P. 511, "Hurst, Haydn" should be "Hurst, Hayden".


Changes for First and Second (April 1999) Printings 
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P. xvii, line 21.  Change "Frank Church" to "Bill Church".

P. 31, lines 3-4.  Change "increased availability of the resource to
the defense" to "increased availability of the resource to the offense".

P. 125, line -14.  Change "Saudia" to "Saudi".  

P. 125, lines -14 to -13. Change "Saudia Arabia, for example, bans
possession of satellite antennas.  Quatar does the same, except" to
"Quatar, for example, was said to ban possession of satellite
antennas, except".  [I was subsequently informed that Saudi Arabia 
does not ban possession of satellite dishes.] 

P. 126, line 4.  Change "Saudia" to "Saudi".

P. 174, line -6.  Change "National Security Agency" to "United States
government".  Line -2.  Delete "NSA".  [NSA was not created until 1952.]

P. 175, line 5.  Change "NSA" to "U.S.".

P. 225, line -15.  Replace "In one major case that hit the press" with
"In early 1998, the New York Times reported that Reuters Analytics, Inc."

P. 225, lines -11 to -7.  Delete "The information was passed ... or the
consulting company, sources said.^75"  [This case likely did not involve
a computer break-in after all.]

P. 226, line 3.  Move footnote 75 to end of paragraph.  Then add
"Reuters responded to the Times story with a press release stating that
the investigation was not focused on a computer break-in, but rather
on whether Reuters Analytics improperly induced the consultant, who
subscribed to the Bloomberg service, to breach certain provisions of
the consultant's subscription agreement with Bloomberg and provide
Bloomberg information to Reuters.^76" 

P. 469.  Change footnote 76 to "Reuters Analytics - Statement, Reuters
Ltd., February 4, 1999."

P. 518.  Change "Ratheon" to "Raytheon".


Changes for First Printing (December 1998) only
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P. 49, line -9.  Change "Some hacking groups" to "Some hacking groups
claim to".

P. 49, line -5.  Change "The hackers trace" to "The hackers say they
trace".  [This whole account is suspect.  Steve Silberman of Wired News
found that Christian Valor (aka Se7en) had hacked the media into  
believing that he was hacking child pornographers.  See "Kiddie Porn
Vigilante Hacked Media," www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/17775.html.]

Change P. 73, line -4.  Delete last sentence "Even then, the Zapatistas
...  ."  [This was apparently not true.]

P. 74, line 9.  Replace "opened window after window in" with "launched
a counter-offensive against".  [The operation was more complex.]

P. 117, last line.  Change "contests" to "contents".

P. 136, line -6.  Change "Ratheon" to "Raytheon".

P. 151, line 4.  Change "The fraudulent party" to "The group".

P. 152.  Replace third paragraph "One organized crime family ..."  with
"In the New York Post, reporter Beth Piskora wrote that one organized
crime family set up a phony consulting firm to help companies fix their
Y2K problems.  Once inside, mob programmers rewrote the code for
financial systems to redirect payments into mob-controlled accounts.
But Adam Penenberg of Forbes Digital investigated and found no
supporting facts.83"

P. 165, line 17.  Change "ballpoint bens" to "ballpoint pens".

P. 203, replace sentence "A good, in-depth guide ..." with "See also
the various hacker publications and Web sites."

P. 237, line -10.  Change "would ping the target" to "would access the
target".

P. 270, line -17.  Change "When Harry Was One" to "When Harlie Was One".

P. 293, line 5, p.  294, line -8, and p.  295, line 1.  Change "3.3
years" to "5 years".

P. 295, line 4.  Change "35-70" to "50-100".

P. 326, line -13.  Change "Table 8-2" to "Table 11-2".

P. 455, item 83.  Change entry to "Adam L.  Penenberg, "Phantom
Mobsters," Forbes Digital, August 28, 1998."

P. 466, footnote 2 in Chapter 8.  Replace with "For example, see
Phrack and 2600."

P. 516.  Add "p. 152" to entry for Penenberg.