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Science + Fiction Thriller	19.1.2001
The other day I was thinking of a geek thriller where geek skills and knowledge about network and operating systems as well as their problems (dos, information leakage, breakable encryption etc.) would be used to elucidate a crime with the help of geeks. I could think about mentioning things like: capturing ones' monitor by using high frequency waves, hijacking telnet sessions, grabbing passwords, ssl encryption, locating somebody by using triometric methods while his mobile phone is turned on, reading traces of the criminal through various logfiles, using known and partially fixed security holes, locating somebody who uses a stolen mobile phone etc. The genre would be "science and fiction thriller", it should mention and use techniques that could be possible by extending our current technology, that may be used in 5-20 years, not so far in the future. Also Free Software geeks should be the good guys who help the police and also warn the reader not to depend on the technology too much since it can be used against him as well.

Science + Fiction Thriller

19.1.2001

The other day I was thinking of a geek thriller where geek skills and knowledge about network and operating systems as well as their problems (dos, information leakage, breakable encryption etc.) would be used to elucidate a crime with the help of geeks.

I could think about mentioning things like: capturing ones' monitor by using high frequency waves, hijacking telnet sessions, grabbing passwords, ssl encryption, locating somebody by using triometric methods while his mobile phone is turned on, reading traces of the criminal through various logfiles, using known and partially fixed security holes, locating somebody who uses a stolen mobile phone etc.

The genre would be "science and fiction thriller", it should mention and use techniques that could be possible by extending our current technology, that may be used in 5-20 years, not so far in the future. Also Free Software geeks should be the good guys who help the police and also warn the reader not to depend on the technology too much since it can be used against him as well.