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Jeff Goodell was born and raised in Silicon Valley, where his family has lived for four generations.

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He has worked as a blackjack dealer, a glazier, a janitor, a bartender, a professional motorcycle racer, an editor at a Russian literary journal, and a technical writer at Apple Computer. He has a BA from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MFA from Columbia University in New York.

In 1989, Goodell began covering crime and politics in New York City for7 Days, a weekly magazine that won a National Magazine Award for General Excellence in 1990.

Since 1996 he has been a Contributing Writer at Rolling Stone and a frequent contributor to the New York Times Magazine.

Goodell’s first book, The Cyberthief and the Samurai (Dell, 1996), told the story of the hunt for notorious computer hacker Kevin Mitnick.

“Goodell’s propulsive narrative reads like a high-tech cousin of The Hot Zone yet presents a broad, balanced look at hacker culture,” critic Dwight