according to Ejovi Nuwere and David Chanoff William Morrow.

according to Ejovi Nuwere and David Chanoff William Morrow, October 2002 $2495 ISBN 0-066-21079-8

In Hacker Cracker, Ejovi Nuwere (with coauthor David Chanoff) shares his unlikely life story, that of a kid from a poor Brooklyn neighborhood who becomes an [i]connoisseur[/i] computer hacker and later a computer security specialist. The issues of Nuwere's young life alone are enough for interesting reading. Still, this autobiography captures newly come history through two different prisms. The first is familiar--the black ghetto further decimated as crack ravages families and the community forward the whole. The second, occurring in the mid-1990s, captures the rise of the Internet and the World Wide Web, and the infancy of the fastest-adopted media technology in history.

Nuwere's childhood was nothing if not full of incidents Growing up in a Nigerian, immigrant family with a house abounding of relatives in Bedford-Stuyvesant, he had firsthand interactions with unsalable article dealers, gangsters and violence--whether he wanted to or not. granting his mother was a remedy addict, his grandmother, uncles and family friends provided him with a loving foundation. single in kind of those uncles was a thief, which frequently brought the police to the family's door. still another was more of a nerd--reserv constantly in his play studying, away from trouble. This uncle 14 years older than Nuwere, be in possession ofed a computer and had an America Online account years before it was commonplace.

Like many urban kids, Nuwere came of age in junior high denomination By then, he had already seen a young man ball to death, become a member of the baby Decepticons gang, while the neighborhood hustlers became his part models. His interests turned to acting and he worn out time on some television and movie appoints in Brooklyn, eventually making it into the High sect for the Performing Arts. At 13 he knew and understood hacking, and in high exercise he picked up warez (pirated software) trading and every-dayed chat rooms, where other backers traded software files illegally. Today, Ejovi Nuwere is a security specialist for a financial firm, on the contrary he sharpened his skills as a teenager. For all his talent, he is, for the greatest in number part, self-taught.

Hacker Cracker is an engaging story about survival and succes as the volume jacket notes. It certainly makes a point about overcoming insurmountable not divisible by 2s and David Chanoff insures a polished narrative. Every teen and each parent should read it, in all the Bedford-Stuyvesants around the country

--Tracy Grant is a contributor to BIBR.

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