CBC’s The Hour hosted Michael Calce for his first ever interview on Wednesday, October 8, 2008. Here’s the interview:
On Thursday, October 9, Michael appeared on Canada AM. You can read an article about his interview or watch the video. He also appeared on the CTV National News that same night. You can watch the report here.
The CBC also has a story online, and you can watch a CBC TV report below and here.
PC World has published an IDG News story about Michael and the book. An excerpt:
The Internet attack took Yahoo engineers by surprise. It came so fast and with such intensity that Yahoo, then the Web’s second most-popular destination, was knocked offline for about three hours.
That was on the morning of Feb. 7, 2000. A few months later, 15-year-old Michael Calce was watching “Goodfellas” at a friend’s house in the suburbs of Montreal when he got a 3 a.m. call on his cell phone.
His father was on the line. “They’re here,” he said.
Calce knew right away what that meant. He had already talked to a lawyer after warning his father, weeks earlier, that he’d knocked offline a string of high profile Web sites — Amazon, Dell, CNN — and his attacks had been widely covered in the press.
Although the late-night visit by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police was not a surprise, Calce said his mind was racing as he walked out to a street corner to wait for a police cruiser to swing by and arrest him. What was going to happen? Would he go to jail?
On October 14, CBC Radio’s The Current aired an interesting interview with Michael. You can listen to it here (scroll down to “Part Two”).
The Montreal Gazette published an interesting article, as did Canadian Press. You can also read a Globe And Mail review here.
