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Based on the movie 'Hackers' this is the novelization of the screenplay. The movie tries to find itself between popularisation and showing how things are and how people feel, so the book does the same. More of a light read then a seriously good book.
(Review by Koos van den Hout)
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Despite Loompanics' reputation as a "dark side" publisher, this may be a very good book. It deals primarily with social engineering, despite the purported coverage of other topics. It would therefore be valuable reading material around corporate lunchrooms, since forewarned is just a little bit more paranoid and, therefore, forearmed. As those involved with data security in the real world well know, cracking is basically a con job. Thus, The Knightmare, if he really is "super", is a con artist par excellence--and is pulling off a really great con here! Revealing the secrets of social engineering poses very little threat to security. Con men already exist and will continue to exist. Cracker wannabes are unlikely to be able ... Rest of this review on the detail page
(Review by Rob Slade)
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New companies in Silicon Valley dealing with their personnel in strange ways while new products get born.
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This book describes the phreaking and hacking activities of Kevin Poulsen. His phreaking combined with social engineering and breaking into phone company buildings. For a book written by a journalist based on interviews it is a pretty complete description of the activities of a phreaker. The book seems seriously influenced by 'The Watchman' about Kevin Mitnick (also by Jonathan Littman). This influence is especially noticable in the last part of the book as a decline in quality. The reader of the book may be getting the idea Kevin Poulsen is still in jail after hacking into every Pac Bell system available but in the end the jailtime wasn't that long. Nowadays Kevin Poulsen writes for Wired magazine, including articles about phone security a... Rest of this review on the detail page
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A book by Clifford Stoll (famous for the Cuckoo's egg) on his thoughts on how everything has to be 'information highway' nowadays, which he sees as a danger to real communities and people cooperating and meeting eachother for real.
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