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Our lives are rapidly moving online, but few people understand the spectre of online security. In this book, journalist Joseph Mann tells the story of the very first, largest and most influential hacker group, the Dead Cow Cult, and the real names of some of its members are revealed here for the first time.

The hackers of the Dead Cow Cult have been on a first-name basis with computers since the dinosaur days of the first Internet. They were the ones who worried about the security of users' personal data when software manufacturers didn't care about it, they were the ones who cooperated with the US government after 9/11, they were the first to raise ethical issues in Internet use. These hackers didn't use their skills and knowledge to get money or to rule countries from the shadows, they stood up for human rights and achieved great success in doing so.

Joseph Mann reminds us that the situation with Internet security is getting worse, and this book is a way to draw attention to the problem, to name and discuss it openly. This publication will be useful to anyone interested in modern technologies, who knows what trolls and bots are, uses online banking and enjoys online shopping."