defense information, classified

"An old friend presents Mike Erikson with an irresistible mystery to solve, far out in the California desert, a team of DARPA scientists has invented a device that shrinks distances so that a traveler can travel hundreds of feet with a single step but evidence is mounting that this miraculous machine isn't quite what it seems, and that its creators are harboring a dangerous secret."--Provided by OClC.

The author provides an account of how he tracked down "Hunter," a criminal who was hacking into the nation's computer networks to gain unauthorized access to sensitive military and security information.

The account of Stoll stalking a methodical "hacker" who was prowling the nation's computer networks to gain unauthorized access to American files.

Depicts sixty patches representing top secret government projects, with information on what each patch's symbols mean.

"Ranging in history from an assassination attempt on Queen Elizabeth I to the creation of the Nazi Final Solution and to the Presidential Daily Brief from August 2001 that warned that Osama Bin Laden was planning an attack on the U.S., the documents in Declassified offer an intriguing glimpse into the world of espionage and covert operations over hundreds of years."--Book jacket.

A former Pentagon official describes what the United States armed forces learned from an alien spacecraft that crashed in the New Mexico desert in 1947 and how he turned that information over to defense industry research and development for weapons technology.