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Carolyn P. Meinel (born 1946) is notable for being one of the targets in the hacking scene during the 1990s.

Biography

In 1983, Meinel received an M.S. in industrial engineering from the University of Arizona. Her father is Aden Meinel and mother is Marjorie Meinel. Meinel married her first husband, Howard Keith Henson, in 1967 and divorced in 1981. Meinel has four daughters, one of whom is Valerie Aurora. In August 1975, Meinel co-founded (with her then-husband, Keith Henson) the L5 Society, since merged into the National Space Society, and was its president for several years.

In 1996, Meinel was among the targets of a high-profile email bomber known as "Unamailer" or "johnny xchaotic".

Some security experts, such as Brian Martin of Attrition, have criticized her writings, claiming that they are inaccurate and generally misrepresent hacking.

Publications

Books

• Uberhacker II: More Ways to Break into a Computer. Loompanics. 2003. ISBN 1-55950-239-8.
• The Happy Hacker 4th Edition. Lexington & Concord, distributed by American Eagle Publications. 2002. ISBN 0-929408-29-2.

Articles

• "For Love of a Gun," the history, technologies of electromagnetic guns, IEEE Spectrum, July, 2007, pp. 40 46.
• "How Hackers Break in and How they Are Caught," Scientific American, Oct. 1998,
• "How the West Was Won… or, The L-5 Society Defeated the Moon Treaty," Spacefaring Gazette, Vol. 10, No. 3, June/July 1994, pp. 1, 8.
• (Many other articles)

Notes

1. ^ Meinel, Carolyn (February 1997). "verbosity -- Carolyn Meinel: Hack 101". Verbosity (Transcript). Interviewed by Jess Morrissette. Retrieved January 6, 2011.
2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-12-10. Retrieved 2009-05-24.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
3. "Unamailer explains bombings". CNET. 1996-12-30. Retrieved 2010-01-16.
4. https://web.archive.org/web/20161001180822/http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/shame/book.html Happy Hacker Book (reviews)
5. https://web.archive.org/web/20161001180645/https://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/shame/teach.html Carolyn Meinel: The Teacher

External links

• Happy Hacker - Carolyn Meinel's site

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