Description for COMPUTER CAPERS by Thomas Whiteside: COMPUTERS MAKE EVERYONE'S JOB EASIER---INCLUDING THIEVES'! They are the new superstars of white collar crime. Their take is often in the millions. Their victims are banks, corporations, the general public, the U. S. government. Many escape without punishment and most of those caught get off with the lightest of sentences. Based on the acclaimed NEW YORKER series, COMPUTER CAPERS chronicles the most spectacular exploits of that new breed, computer criminals---those we know of, at least. It is irresistible entertainment for true crime aficionados. It also sounds a much-needed warning and offers timely solutions to yet another peril of the electronic age. Here is an incredible but true printout on the deviant geniuses who are giving IBM and all the computer experts bad dreams.
