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Irreverent cyber "troll" may face hard prison time for his actions, continues to fight for his innocence
A New York security "researcher" faces the prospect of spending five years behind bars and being forced to pay up to $250,000, after a federal jury of his peers
found him guilty
of cybercrimes involving his 2010 exploitation a flaw in the security of iPad service provider AT&T. He allegedly used the flaw to
expose the email address of over 100,000 individuals
I. A Leaky Hole
The story began in June 2010. Apple, Inc. (
) had just released
the first generation iPad
, a tablet computer that transformed the form factor from overlooked to
in vogue
. And the service provider du jour for iPads with 3G data connectivity was AT&T, Inc. (
But AT&T's iPad support services had a relatively minor, but notable security flaw. AT&T's iPad-related servers ran a script that accepted an ICC-ID (
integrated circuit card identifiers
), an identifier unique to each device.
If sent a valid ICC-ID, the script served up the personal email of the subscriber associated with that device. AT&T had planned to use the feature to generate a slick AJAX-style response on its web applications for the iPad.
AT&T left a gaping hole in their iPad web scripts. [Image Source: DailyTech/Jason Mick]
But Andrew Auernheimer, Daniel Spitler, and other hackers with the profanely named "troll" hacker collective Goatse Security identified the vulnerability when they were probing AT&T's servers. They quickly wrote a so-called "data slurper" -- a script that performed a brute force attack, working through tables of ICC-IDs and recording the ones that received a response.
apologized for the breach
and took down the script, closing its hole.
II. Investigation, Trial Conclude in Guilty Verdict
But the damage was already done. Goatse Sec. had published its results to the blog site
, revealing parts of a data set that contained roughly
114,000 email addresses
. Among the high profile figures exposed were ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and current Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
Soon after the data loss
U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation
agents, investigating the incident, conducted a raid on the home Mr. Auernheimer who had moved from New York to a residence in Arkansas. Mr. Auernheimer, aka "weev" or "Escher Auernheimer" was arrested by federal agents on suspicion of computer crimes. Authorities also allegedly found
cocaine, LSD, and ecstasy
in his residence. Lawyers for Mr. Auernheimer contend that the raid was unnecessary and illegal. The security "researcher" has yet to face charges on the drugs found.
However, he
was charged
with one count of conspiracy to access servers without permission and one count of identity theft. These offenses -- spelled out in the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 (
) -- carry a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000 USD.
Goatse Security "researcher" Andrew Auernheimer was found guilty of two counts of computer crimes and may be sentenced to up to five years in prison, pending appeal. [Image Source: AP]
Mr. Auernheimer was charged in
U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey
, the location where his co-defendant (Daniel Spitler) was charged. Initially, federal authorities had planned to charge the two members separately, which would have resulted in a trial of Mr. Auernheimer in an Arkansas District Court. However, the case was eventually shuffled to the New Jersey District Court.
In June 2011, Mr. Spitler, aka "JacksonBrown"
pled guilty
to the two cybercrimes counts, in hopes of receiving a lighter sentence. He is currently awaiting sentencing.
Mr. Auernheimer has fought the charges, and the trial concluded this week with the jury finding Mr. Auernheimer guilty of both counts.
III. Appeal is Pending
The hacker's attorney, Tor Ekeland, disputes the verdict, arguing that the jury and judge misinterpreted the cybercrimes statute and the nature of Mr. Auernehimer's data grab. The hacker is currently free on bail. His attorney is appealing the case to the
3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
in Philadelphia.
Mr. Auernheimer's attorney argues the guilty verdict is the result of technical ignorance on behalf of the jury. [Image Source: Steffie Keith/Flickr]
A Goatse Sec. spokesperson in a previous interview with
defended the disclosure and data grab, emphasizing that Goatse Sec. researchers did not try to profit off the emails they grabbed. The spokesperson writes:
While plenty of jokes about selling the list to Chinese spammers or using it to screw with the stock market circulated #gnaa, the truth of the matter is that disclosing this vulnerability let customers know how their data was being mishandled. As it was widely reported, the data was only released to Gawker to provide proof of the vulnerability. Considering the circumstances, it was the most ethical thing they could do.
The spokesperson, like Mr. Auernheimer's attorney, chalks the possibility of a conviction up to technical ignorance on behalf of the jury, remarking:
As for the "hacking" itself, describing the activities of GoatSec as "hacking" or "unauthorized entry" is a gross overstatement and dramatization. If you examine what actually took place, it was simply enumerating account IDs by using the API exactly as it was designed. There was no authentication to bypass, no warnings about prohibiting access or anything else of the sort. The only hope the DOJ has of prosecuting them is based on the likely technical ignorance of the jury, sad to say.
You can read my full interview with the Goatse Sec. spokesperson
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This just shows how inadequately our justice system understands and handles technology cases. If I build a webservice that allows unauthenticated clients to pass in a random number and get back an e-mail address and do nothing to limit access to this webservice then a couple of things should be clear:
1. It is not possible for anyone to access my webservice in an "unauthorized" way, because my service has no concept of an "unauthorized" user. All users are authorized. Had the webservice required a password, or at least, a private-key/auth-token, that would be a different story. But that's not what happened.
2. If someone is able to use my unprotected webservice to scrape e-mail addresses, then I am responsible and liable for any identity theft that occurs, not the guy who did the scraping. I'm the one who let the personal information out into the wild by operating a public webservice that serves up e-mail addresses to unauthenticated clients.
The problem is that a major company who
should have known better
published a webservice with absolutely no security around it, not that someone eventually came along and exploited their lack of security. The ruling in this case is harmful because it does nothing to address the actual problem, and gives companies the idea that it's okay to deploy insecure webservices in the wild because the law will back them up when they inevitable get exploited. They need to secure their webservice, not lock up the guy who pointed out that their webservice had no security.
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The theme for today is "Group Portrait of an Unknown Family". As said in Sepia Saturday. "All lovers of old photographs are familiar with unknown people, unknown families and unknown places, we all have them in our collection, and Sepia Saturday 165 provides an opportunity to give them their moment in the limelight, not because of who they are but because of who they may be." And so it is with this collection of pictures, some group, some not, that most likely is connected to my Keyes ancestors in Oregon. Their 1870s arrival in eastern Oregon was via Benton County, Isthmas of Panama, Tennessee, Virginia, and back to Ireland and the Scots border lands. The following "unknown" pictures came to me from a Keyes cousin, who had "rescued" a number of old albums that had apparently been in the Brown, Keyes, Butler and Donnelly families. The lovely old fashioned albums were in disrepair -- cut up, pages torn out, pictures removed, and discarded as trash.
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The following picture is a tintype and was found with other tintype pictures of my Benton County Keyes family. If I had to hazard an educated guess, I would say this was Rebecca Jane Keyes Donnelly.
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What I grasp from the HSA inniciative is more like:
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GPU: very good for paralel calculations, still getting better at being general
There are, however, other workloads, such as video transcoding for example that are not specially suitable for neither, hence intel, amd, nvidia and several arm soc vendors include a video transcoding block in their chips which is several times more efficient than either cpu, gpu of both at this specific workload.
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We love the warmth and fire of jalapeños with eggs. But if you are less of a fan, cut back on the jalapeños and use something mild instead, such as roasted red peppers. To make this frittata style pie dairy-free, like I do, use your favorite non-dairy, vegan cream cheese.
We love the warmth and fire of jalapeños with eggs. But if you are less of a fan, cut back on the jalapeños and use something mild instead, such as roasted red peppers. To make this frittata style pie dairy-free, like I do, use your favorite non-dairy, vegan cream cheese.
1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
2 cups cooked gluten-free Tinkyada brown rice spaghetti
2-3 cloves garlic, minced
10 halved artichoke hearts- if frozen, thawed
8-oz cream cheese or Greek style yogurt
8 large free-range organic eggs
2 heaping tablespoons jarred jalapeños
2 tablespoons fresh chopped cilantro- or parsley, if preferred
A pinch of nutmeg
Sea salt and ground pepper, to taste
2 medium size vine-ripe or heirloom tomatoes, sliced
Preheat the oven to 375ºF. Lightly oil a deep 9-inch pie plate.
Briefly heat the leftover cold noodles in a skillet with a touch of olive oil if needed, to soften. Arrange the noodles in the bottom of the pie plate.
Return the skillet to the burner and heat a dash of olive oil; add the garlic and artichokes and briefly cook- for two minutes. Turn off the heat and set aside.
Using a spoon, place dabs of the softened cream cheese all over the top of the noodles. (Skip this step if using yogurt.)
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LAKE ELSINORE, California – Red Bull KTM Factory rider Ryan Dungey finished second overall and second in the series at the final race of the 2013 Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship Series held at Lake Elsinore Motocross Park.
In the first moto, Ryan Dungey leaped off the start line to a fifth place start. By the halfway mark he had moved his KTM 450 SX-F into podium position and was sitting in third. He then set his sights on the second place ride of Josh Grant. With a few laps remaining, he was able to catch Grant and make a pass stick to take over the position. He went on to finish the moto in second place.
"It's pretty hot here today and the track is rough but I felt pretty good the first moto. There are so many lines on this track and we just have to talk about how we can change it up for the second moto so I can knock a second off my lap time, and hopefully, battle for the lead," stated Dungey.
Dungey launched off to a better start in the second moto and came around the first corner in fourth. He quickly caught the third place rider and made a pass before the end of the next lap. Dungey spent the next two laps catching up to Justin Barcia, and easily got around him in a rhythm section. Once in second, he settled in and finished the race with another podium position. His 2-2 moto scores earned him second overall for the day.
After twelve rounds in the Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Series, Dungey finishes second in the overall point standings. He will now begin training for the Motocross Des Nations event where he will represent Team USA.
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1. Ryan Villopoto (USA), Kawasaki (1-1)
2. Ryan Dungey (USA), KTM (2-2)
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4. Jake Weimer (USA), Kawasaki (8-4)
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Other KTM
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18. Michael Byrne (USA), KTM (23-15)
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1. Villopoto, 563 points
2. Dungey, 507
3. Barcia, 411
4. Trey Canard (USA), Honda, 332
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It was the day I wrote a SQL delete statement to run against a large table and forgot the where clause. Thankfully we had last night's backups handy. |
Not a day: ten of them. I just spent almost two months fixing an algorithm in a library that was causing paradoxical behavior in the output of a simulation. After all that hard work, I re-ran the simulation and was still getting the same wrong results, so for a week and a half I examined every bloody line in my simulation, every day getting no change. So by now I have about nine weeks of disappointed looks from my advisor, who has no advice to offer. Then I figure out that I'm still using the old library. |
For me those were not days of technical stalls, but the days where things in the air changed. 1st worst day: Having just joined the company, I was shown the code in .NET 1.1 and told we were going to stick with it for a while. At the interview we were talking about 2.0/3.5 and I was supposed to work with that. There's nothing that can ruin a new working relationship right at the start like a good lie... 2nd worst day: We weren't allowed to write stored procedures for the only reason the boss didn't like them. 3rd worst day: After having finally migrated to .NET 3.5 the boss told us to stay clear of that new stuff like LINQ and lambda functions for the only reason it was something new and not time-proven. It was then when I understood I didn't belong with them. |
After spending a 100 hour work-week feverishly integrating software in an overcrowded under-ventilated makeshift office above the shop floor where they were assembling our simulator, catching a late flight to D.C., and then working until 6AM stomping out the last bugs, and trying unsuccessfully to figure out why the motion base was pitching backwards instead of forwards whenever you stomped on the brakes. Luckily, none of the generals we gave demos to on that day seemed to notice the glitch. 2 days later, the misplaced negative sign was obvious. Lesson Learned: Get Some Sleep. |
Tired or not feeling too well, so it takes a lot longer to concentrate enough to get something done, combined with a whole pile of interruptions. End result: nothing done at all. |
2 in the morning, about to go live with a new automation program, and we hit the start button and the dispenser head crashes into the guarding causing about $1000 damage. This was due to a line of code from our template logic that clearly said it would disable motion if the guard wasn't out of the way, but upon further investigation, the underlying code had been bypassed. That was my worst day. Then recently I participated in the flattening of a much more expensive robot arm in a 600 ton press due to a bug in the fault handling, so now that's my worst day. Wiping out data is one thing (you should always have backups), but causing physical damage is quite another. |
The worst day for me starts off when I have a TODO list of 5 items. I get latest code and the build is broken. Go off to find the person responsible. Go get some coffee while I wait, but the pot is empty. Come back to my desk to an email about a surprise meeting that starts in 10min. Get back from the meeting with some new items on my TODO list, that have to wait b/c someone has come and asked for some help/advice. Finally sit down to code and I get a urgent bug from the QA team, only it's not really defined. Have to go find the QA team and find out what's wrong. Get back to my desk with an updated ticket, only to see that it's time for a status meeting. Status meeting actually morphs into a 2 hour design meeting. By the time the end of the day rolls around, nothing has been done and my TODO list has now doubled in size. |
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I think there were several candidates for "worst."
As a student, I worked part-time on a fancy audio algorithm. It had been originally written by another student based on some obscure mathematical paper. For the life of me, I could not figure out what that code was doing. There were some 3k lines of code in the project and I did many an improvement on many parts of it, but any time I modified the central algorithm, I messed it up. A few months later I re-read that mathematical paper and suddenly it all made sense. I went to my professor and told him that I would like to take another stab at that algorithm. In one crazy afternoon I solved the problem that had stymied me for seven months. But really, staring at 3k lines of mystifying code for seven months is not something I would want to inflict on anyone. (Bastis law: You can solve any programming problem if you stare at it long enough.) |
Took a newly created position in a start up as head of technical support. I was given the office and computer of one of the programmers who did support and development, which still had the full development environment installed (He got a new computer and office.). During a client support call, I ran the client's issue in debug mode and found the programmer's error and not only reported the bug, but indicated the line of code and recommended the correction. What should have put me on the path to being another developer on the team, lead to having the IDE uninstalled from my machine. I got to suffer working with the program just like all the other users. That didn't last long, because they rewrote a whole new and improved version of the application - the first release failed to install - go figure. The need for technical support doubled. In the end, I developed a whole library of things , NOT to do. I realize the experience wasn't all bad - it was the last time I had my own office. |
50,000+ Errors: I had to dump a project and start a-fresh in all three times (the solutions would work in the dev environment, but in production all sorts of intermittent crashes would occur). On the final time round, everything worked, or almost everything. Unfortunately one bug had crept in that caused an infinite loop, the system had an error reporting module that would log any errors, generate a report file and email it to the development team. The sheer agony, email after email was sent. Even after killing the application, the emails kept coming for the next 24 Hours! ouch. But it does have a good ending: The system has been running 24/7 for nearly three years to date, with zero glitch and continues to hum away... |
My worst days are related to bad practices, i.e. working on a tight schedule without proper project management in place, going live with basically untested software, and a desperate frenzy to to save what can be saved, only to make things worse by making more errors of haste. |
Being manager of a development group, and having a serial string of disasters (for all sorts of reasons) in shipping code, shipped products, and a few salespeople who were very pissed off about this. This included installations in several major buildings as part of the building management systems - so things that did not work right were sheeted home to us even though, as it later turned out, it was something else (somebody elses equipment at fault). Being hauled into daily and weekly meetings with the CEO to be told "fix this immediately" when in fact we'd been battling the trouble for some months and were no closer to a resolution. Being blamed for somebody elses bad equipment, for months and months, being pressured to fix it (when we didn't know the cause). Being screwed over by sales people. Being threatened with lawsuits. No fun. We did in fact fix it. We found something else in the building causing the trouble by putting people in there (at our companies expense) and gathering irrefutable evidence. Oh! The joy I got from writing the letter for the CEO to sign... |
What happens when A big product is about to release, all folks in office know that and a party arrangement is going on. QA has given thumbs up and in excitement he told about it to client, you are about to build the final version, written the mail and only attachment of that build is remaining. And all of a sudden everything crashes. You can't figure out why a 1 mb build is taking a time worth 10mb build. The workstation restarts and says no bootable media found..... You call your support guy, who comes and says it will take a whole day either to backup or to restore the data. It was the same place where you are having a party and now you, the lead and the project manager was trying to convince the client about delay of the release. After two hours of arguing he agrees to delay the launch by two days. You have to agree on finishing the builds by the next day. At the end of the day you have to cancel the ticket for the bus to my home to find out that there is no ticket available for next four days, your entire leave(4 days) is going to be wasted. Embarrassment, disappointments, hot arguments.... And the bottom line is that this day is supposed to be a victory day... However I canceled my leaves. The application launched as expected and we have got some positive feedback in first two days. And finally I had got an extra paid leave and a happy endings. |
A decade ago when I was working remotely and had a week of work wiped out by a third party defragment program. Since then I haven't had defrag on autopilot. I won't let them run until I check in my changes or run the backup. |
I was working on a large change, and when I went to merge my code back, I somehow took the wrong changes in the diff tool, at various places, and ended up with a completely unworkable changeset. :| (Fortunately I was able to rollback/reapply, but it took a bit of wrangling and I wasn't too happy) Then one time at my first 'real' IT job I was writing a script to migrate a ton of UNIX-based websites to a new server, and quickly learned the value of input validation... The trailing space at the end of my username list caused "undesirable" results. Luckily my mentor at the time agreed to fix my mistake for a bottle of rum ;) |
Worst two days of debugging: Had a bug in converting km/h into m/s. It took 48 hours to find out that the bug could be in such a simple place. |
The day I found myself going back to the office at 4AM after two hours sleep having just figured out what the problem was that caused a bug I had run into at midnight when the product was supposed to go off for CD mastering at midday that day. I wish I had known a lot more about good software development practice than I did at the time, because I could have saved myself a tonne of grief on that project with more and better unit testing and a less tightly coupled and messy design. One of the times when having a senior developer around to point me in the right direction ( instead of being the senior developer ) would have been a big improvement... |
My personal worst was coming in Monday morning and finding out the update I pushed out Friday night wasn't tested very well, and Microsoft's InternetDecode API borked on string values longer than 1400 characters, losing 90% of the data my customers entered over the weekend. I learned a damn good lesson that day about unit tests. |
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My worst day, well that might be the day a very complex import process did not do one of the many tasks in it and all the people at one particular organizational level did not get into the table that defined their user rights. After a whole day of tracking through the process (including getting one of my coworkers to track it through with me as I could not find a problem), rerunning the offending piece of code with no changes put the users in correctly. I still have no idea why they didn't go in the first time, they were in the import file correctly, every step that modified them did it's job correctly and the final piece of code worked correctly! arrrrgggggghhh. This is my most frustrating because I couldn't find something to fix. Anopther really bad day happened when we did an import at 5 pm on a Friday and immediately had user login problems. Turned out to be very bad data given to us by the client, but we spent most of that evening fixing the problem. Lesson learned, never run a process on Friday just before quitting time! Other lesson learned, add checks to ensure the data is correct (although the particular data problem we had was not one anyone would have anticipated beforehand and we did have checks for the things that normally could go wrong.). Third lesson, whatever checks you have, you will miss something big someday. Then we had a bad day when we had to develop and sendout emails to every sales rep of all our clients because someone else had accidentally forgotten to put clientId in the where clause of a proc that sent out a nightly email and sent all the information about one client to every other client we had. Wasn't our mistake, but fixing it under the immediate prosesure of how soon can you have this done was nerve-wracking. Especially since we certainly couldn't afford to have a bug in the way the apology email was sent out! No lessons learned from this other than to make sure someone code reviews stuff before it sends emails to three-gazillion people. |
That happenned in my propagation: It's when the tester discover a very serious bug in my part of work at the end of the work-day. It's just several hours before the demo, and I'm too intense to work it out. Fortunately, a senior developer point out that's a bug generated by incorrect server configuration. |
It was the final day to submit the product to the clients but product was not 100% completed to meet the customer standard. Also there were new bugs which were not there before so we had to neutralize them too. But after all our team were able to complete the product before the next day since one of our best programmer didn't even slept at that day to finish it. We were able to deliver the product to the customer too. That is the worst software development day I ever had. |
I wrote a database update to the "current" specification document for our manufacturing production system. This is on a proprietary database system that you can't easily jump in and look at like today's SQL Server, etc. Unfortunately, the specification document left off the fact that another developer had appended some important accounting info at the end a few months before. So, when I ran my update, it stripped all the accounting info off, while leaving all the production data in place. Was not detected for some hours (since accounting wasn't billing at the time), so the backup was pretty old. A lot of stuff got out of sync by silently failing too. End result, we (as in everybody in the company) ended up rolling back to the latest backup and rekeying a whole day's worth of work! |
On day ONE, I was given a task to enhance an existing C# project. But I was not able to compile the project since several pieces of the code was not checked in by a developer who left the company in an unhappy manner. To my horror, his development machine was not available at all. Later, I heard from others that he made a build few days before leaving the firm and that was already in production. I immediately requested for those binary dlls and .NET Reflector came to my rescue as a result of which, I was able to recover the missing source code. |


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well shadow of the scorpion must be out somewhere (US?) because i got a copy from a seller on amazon. and it's gooood only just started last night (got it yesterday) but bonus points for jebel krong being mentioned in the same book as cormac already!
Signing Righto, back at a fast constant Internet connection and time to start catching up. First off, I'll be doing a couple of signings this month in Colchester and London. Here's the shop shop addresses: Waterstone's, Culver Square, Colchester. Saturday 22nd November, 1-2pm Forbidden Planet, 179 Shaftesbury Avenue, London Thursday 27th November, 6-7pm
Sci-Fi-London Ah well, I've just done a video interview for Robert Grant of Sci-Fi-London. He'll (hopefully) be editing out my ums and ers to put it up sometime anon. Not sure if I'll look at it myself. I've hated audio interviews I've done because I tend to gabble, lose track of what I was saying and generally don't 'perform' all that well. In the end, if I'd wanted to be a performer, I wouldn't have retreated to my bedroom all those years ago and started writing weird stories. That's the thing about this writing lark, it's not all about celebrity and being amusing and intelligent in front of an audience, it's about an utterly introvert pursuit in which you don' talk to people for hours on end.
Sci-Fi-London Interview Well, there's a video interview with me up on the Sci-Fi-London site now, which will later be added to the list of interview on their .tv site. I haven't yet watched it myself but Caroline tells me it's OK - not too many ums and ers. SCI-FI-LONDON was lucky enough to meet Neal Asher at his Essex home to talk about his latest book, The Gabble & Other Stories, about writing and about 15 years of the Polity universe, David Fincher, Heavy Metal and the internet as a distraction from real work. Now, I really really must get out of Christmas mode and do some of that real work.
Think it comes across OK, Neal. This in-front-of-the-camera business is always trickier than you might think. I'm always a little mortified when it happens to myself. Mark
The Departure Okay, a little while ago I finished The Departure, wrote a couple of synopses and some blurbs for it, then sent it off to Macmillan. Good response from the commissioning editor (bloody marvelous). Here's one of the blurbs for you: Like Wellsian war machines the shepherds stride into riots to grab up the ringleaders and drag them off to Inspectorate HQ for adjustment, unless they are in shredding mode, in which case their captives visit community digesters, or rather whatever of them has not been washed down the street drains. Pain inducers are used for adjustment, and soon the Committee will have the power to edit human minds, but not yet, twelve billion human beings need to die before Earth can be stabilized, but by turning large portions of Earth into concentration camps this is achievable, especially when the Argus satellite laser network comes fully online… Alan Saul has taken a different route to disposal, waking as he does inside a crate on the conveyor into the Calais incinerator. How he got there he does not know, but he does remember the pain and the face of his interrogator. Janus speaks to Saul through the hardware implanted in his skull, sketching the nightmare world for him. And Saul decides to bring it all crashing down… Not sure if this is what will be appearing on the back of the book, but it gives you a taste of what it's all about. http://theskinner.blogspot.com
The Book Depository I just stuck this post up on my blog. Anyone here know about The Book Depository? http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/ A comment on the previous post is one I've been reading a lot from American readers. It is, apparently, difficult to obtain my books over there. The first reason for this is that Tor US doesn't publish them all, it's a shame, but what can I do? However, some while ago someone directed my attention to The Book Depository which states on its website Free worldwide delivery on every book. If you go on there and stick my name in the search you get most of my books, and they're even discounted. For example, you can buy a copy of Gridlinked, in its nice new cover, for £4.75 including postage and packing. Still suspicious I checked out the 'to these location' bit and the USA is there. In fact there's a huge list of countries there. They also use Paypal. Now, I haven't used The Book Depository myself so don't know how good it is or how true the promises on the website. I believe others have used it and been satisfied. Please, if any of you reading this do buy books through them, let me know how it went.
Five Book Contract Damn me, my publisher didn't change the locks when I popped outside for a cigarette. After four contracts for three books, plus a collection of short stories and two extras first published in America, over a million and a half words having passed under editorial pencils, they're still not fed up with me. Even after having to tolerate a slightly drunk author wandering around Macmillan offices, snaffling any book that isn't nailed down and secreting it in a Tesco carrier bag, they're still prepared to put up with me. Wow! Now, whilst progressively renewing my covers (using those superb Jon Sullivan pictures), Tor Macmillan have given me a five book contract, which I've signed. My last contract underwent a slight redesign with the last two books being swapped around so that The Departure, a novel based on short stories that appeared in my collection The Engineer ReConditioned, will be published last rather than second to last. This book will be the first of the 'Owner Sequence' comprising two further books titled Zero point and Jupiter War. After that I'm signed up for three as yet to be named books, so I'll certainly be writing books for Macmillan for some years to come. I see the future now. New employees at Macmillan will express momentary bafflement and surprise, "Neal Asher? I thought he was dead?" whereupon oldtimers will point nervously to a big iron-studded oak door, "We keep him in there". Neophyte editors will be ushered through that door, "Keep to the right. Do not touch or approach the glass. You pass him nothing but soft paper…" Meanwhile, those working in book shops will check their latest delivery and dubiously eye the sagging 'A' shelf. A Hogwarts trained shelf-stacker will remove the books from their box with iron tongues, whilst a second employee affixes the chains. Thanks all at Macmillan, it's great working with you. If anyone has any press queries, please email cdothealyatmacmillandotcodotuk
It certainly is good news. The Departure is now all but completed and I'm now three quarters of the way through the second book, Zero Point.


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