Fresh Air Archive: Michelle Slatalla and Joshua Quittner (Nonfiction‪)‬

Journalists Michelle Slatalla and Joshua Quittner and former member of the Masters of Doom, John Lee on this archive edition of Fresh Air. Newsday reporters Michelle Slatalla and Joshua Quittner collaborated to write Masters of Deceptions: The Gang that Rules Cyberspace, about two rival gangs of teenage computer hackers in New York City. The gangs broke into phone company computers, downloaded confidential credit histories, and broke into private and corporate computers files. The rivalry was friendly until a computer remark by one hacker set off a "gang war." Lee is a former member of the Masters of Doom. Federal agents had been monitoring the rivalry between the two gangs. Lee was arrested and sent to jail. (Original broadcast date: January 23, 1995)