Journalists MICHELLE SLATALLA and JOSHUA QUITTNER both work for Newsday. They've collaborated on a new book, "Masters of Deception: The Gang that Ruled Cyberspace," (HarperCollins). It's about two rival gangs of teenage computer hackers in New York City: Masters of Deception and the Legion of Doom. The gangs, broke into phone company computers, downloaded confidential credit histories, and broke into private and corporate computer files. The rivalry was friendly until a computer remark by one hacker set off a "gang war." (MORE ON THE COMPUTER GANGS IN THE SECOND
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