Carolyn Meinel
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Carolyn P. Meinel (CPM) (born 1946) was notable in the hacking scene during the 1990s. Her books and website, called The Happy Hacker, are dedicated to a style known as script kiddie hacking. Some security experts, such as Brian Martin of Attrition, have criticized her writings, claiming that they are inaccurate and generally misrepresent hacking.[1][2]
In 1983 Carolyn received an M.S. in industrial engineering from the University of Arizona.[3]
Her father is Aden Meinel and mother is Marjorie Meinel. Meinel married her first husband, Howard Keith Henson, in 1967[3] and divorced in 1981.[4] Meinel has four daughters.
In August 1975, Meinel co-founded (with her then-husband, Keith Henson) the L5 Society, since merged into the National Space Society, and was its president for several years.
In 1996 Meinel was among the targets of a high-profile email bomber known as "Unamailer" or "johnny xchaotic".[5]
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[edit] Publications
[edit] Books
- Uberhacker II: More Ways to Break into a Computer. Loompanics. 2003. ISBN 1559502398.
- The Happy Hacker 4th Edition. Lexington & Concord, distributed by American Eagle Publications. 2002. ISBN 0-0204-8-29-2.
[edit] Articles
- "For Love of a Gun," the history, technologies of electromagnetic guns, IEEE Spectrum, July, 2007, pp. 40 46.
- "How Hackers Break in and How they Are Caught," Scientific American, Oct. 1998,
- "How the West Was Won… or, The L-5 Society Defeated the Moon Treaty," Spacefaring Gazette, Vol. 10, No. 3, June/July 1994, pp. 1, 8.
- (Many other articles)
[edit] Notes
- ^ http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/shame/book.html Happy Hacker Book (reviews)
- ^ http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/shame/teach.html Carolyn Meinel: The Teacher
- ^ a b Meinel, Carolyn (February 1997) (Transcript). Interview with Jess Morrissette. Verbosity. http://verbosity.wiw.org/issue6/meinel.html. Retrieved January 6, 2011.
- ^ http://www.nss.org/resources/library/spacemovement/chapter05.htm
- ^ "Unamailer explains bombings". CNET. 1996-12-30. http://news.com.com/Unamailer+explains+bombings/2100-1017_3-258247.html. Retrieved 2010-01-16.
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