Did Evans ever say he wrote “How To Become The Worlds No. 1 Hacker?”
Over the past couple of months there has been a lot of talk about Gregory D. Evan’s and the Book “How To Become The Worlds No. 1 Hacker”. Over this period of time there has been a numerous amount of negative articles, blogs, and comments made on investor relation sites. These publications have made it extremely hard for Mr. Evans and his company, LIGATT Security International to stay away from negative publicity. Writers are trying to accuse Gregory Evans of plagiarizing the book. As “The Referee of Cyber Wars”, it was my position to find out what was really going on. While reading over some of the articles written on the “plagiarism accusations”, there were a couple questions that came to mind. The first thing that I thought to myself was: I wonder how many people actually went out, purchased the book, and read it. So I continued to read and it all dawned on me. I couldn’t find not one place where it said that the book was written or authored by Gregory Evans. So now I’m saying, “what is all the fuss about”? This man has never stated nor does it mention anywhere in the publication that it was written by Gregory D. Evans.
So the point being made here is that the cover says its a “publication by” and not written by Greg?
Yeah! and it must be pretty good because of all the fuss.
Wow! it seems like something smells fishy and i agree with you Reed.
“A Publication By” would mean the act of issuing printed material.
“Written By” would mean the production of a literary work.
With that being said, the book reads “A PUBLICATION BY Gregory Evans” not necessarily meaning that he was the writer of the book.
I think this is a curious point. My review of the book is on-going, but I don’t see any citations? If you aren’t citing where you are getting the information, and you are putting your name on the cover… I would make the strong argument you are doing something wrong. The point is, if you don’t clearly define that you are using someone else’s work, you are inherently representing that it is your own work product.
Wikipedia explains the following about Intellectual Property: Under intellectual property law, owners are granted certain exclusive rights to a variety of intangible assets, such as musical, literary, and artistic works; discoveries and inventions; and words, phrases, symbols, and designs.
The fact that other people wrote this material means that Evans needed written permission to reproduce it for a profit. That is a legal fact. Plagiarism is more of a academic and journalistic word. It would be more of a violation of the original offers intellectual property rights — equally as wrong.
Right now we haven’t seen the terms of the original agreement so there’s no real way to know. If I remember correctly, most of the author K.A. Applegate’s books were written by a third party even though her name was on the cover.
I know that you have good intentions, and your statements make sense but even college courses will not allow the use of Wikipedia as a source. Anyone can post there. You cannot believe everything everyone writes.
Check out Amazon.com, it clearly shows the following:
How To Become The Worlds No. 1 Hacker [Perfect Paperback]
Gregory D. Evans (Author),
Chad Kinsey (Illustrator)
which would imply if he did not write it, he is at least accepting credit for writing it.
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A simple Google search returns the following:
“How To Become The Worlds No. 1 Hacker by Gregory D. Evans and Chad Kinsey”
Which implies the book was authored by Gregory D. Evans.
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This very website posted his bio which states under the “Author” section:
“Mr. Evans’ other titles include, “Memoirs of a Hi-Tech Hustler,” “The Hi-Tech Hustler Scrap Book,” “Hi-Tech Identity Theft Short and Simple,” “125 Ways to Protect Your Computer Short and Simple,” “How to become of the World’s No. 1 Hacker,”
A Google cache of his bio on the Ligattsecurity.com website shows the same thing…
So based on his bio he is clearly taking credit for authoring the book!
You know, this really makes a lot of sense. Why can’t others see this as clearly as you do?