I read the book 2 months ago.. and it was a fairly good book but like in the tv shows
and movies , Jeffery Deaver kinda overplayed things a bit.

one thing i really questioned was how Gillette (main good guy hacker) looked some of phates
code and proclaimed that phate used an "east coast" version of unix.
now we all know that berkely modified bell labs' version.. but nowadays, there isn't such a thing as east coast/west coast versions..