Author: Paul Mungo

Paul Mungo is a journalist known for investigating the early computer underground with security specialist Bryan Clough. Approaching Zero examines hackers, phone-system experimenters, malicious programs, and other forms of digital wrongdoing at a moment when networked computing was entering wider public life. Faber and Faber published the British edition in 1992, while Random House issued an American edition with a different subtitle. Library and institutional records consistently credit Mungo and Clough together, making the book a collaborative work rather than a solo account. Its mixture of reporting and technical subject matter places it among the early book-length attempts to explain computer security culture to general readers.