Lisbeth Salander, the hacker-babe protagonist of Stieg Larsson’s hugely popular Girl With… novels, infiltrates secured networks and hijacks hard drives with ease. But how realistic is the hacking she does? Vanity Fair got the scoop from reformed hacker Kevin Poulsen.
Stieg Larsson, the Swedish author who wrote the all-of-a-sudden-very-popular books The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest, has become the first author to sell a million Kindle books, granting him induction into Amazon’s “Kindle Million Club”. Any guesses who the next one might be? Faulkner? Proust? Nabokov? Probably Dan Brown. [Business Wire via Crunch Gear]
