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Summary: Carmada reviews Hack Attacks Encyclopedia
Review: "We're sure someone's thought of this idea before, but it took John Chirillo to pull it off: an encyclopedia of 30 years of hacks, cracks, phreaks, and related endeavors. Yes, there's now a single authoritative reference for all of it. Hack Attacks Encyclopedia starts back in the mists of time, chronicling John Draper's long-distance telephony adventures as Captain Crunch (that is, before he wrote Easy Writer, the original IBM PC word processor). If you were too young for the '60s or early '70s, Chirillo quotes some anarchist texts that put you right in the spirit. His timelines and narratives then take you through "the golden age" (1980-1989); "the great hacker war" (1990-1994); the age of "zero tolerance" (1994-1999), and beyond the millennium. Of course, the heart of the book isn't the narrative. Together, the book and CD-ROM assemble nearly 2,000 historic texts, program files, code snippets, and hacking/security tools -- files as old as the '70s and as new as tomorrow's headlines. You name it: password programs, Unix/Linux scripts, remote hacks for Windows systems, scanners, sniffers, spoofers, flooders, keystroke capture programs, virus hacks -- not just one variation but many. A veritable cornucopia of digital anarchy. (Bill Camarda)"
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Summary: I would give this book a higher rating if I could
Review: Encyclopedia is technologically thorough and the CD/Book contains a huge mixture of security stuff. I never post reviews but this is something high quality.
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Summary: The book nicely preserves underground history.
Review: For me, visual images and literature are so closely related they can at times be almost indistinguishable. Perhaps this is a form of 'synaesthesia'? No matter; the fact remains that the different types of writing mingle together in this book, almost inextricably in my mind, create a three-dimensional solid work. From this I know that a tremendous amount of research and planning went into this book. I've been waiting twelve years for an anthology like this of e-zine, BBS, and web postings. The industry sorely needs manuscripts of true events and collections from actual "doers". What a great start this is. The author did an excellent job, bringing us to the front lines of the hacker movement, creating for us a complete battleground of the cyber-underground.
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Summary: AWESOME!!
Review: From 2.4 gigabytes of hacker tools, exploits, and code collected for almost twenty years, Hack Attacks Encyclopedia is Hacking History. There are easily over 2,000 texts from all walks of life in the Underground. The CD has about 11,000 pages of the full-length, un-cut, texts from the book. I especially like the phone line phreaking and spy stuff.
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Summary: excellent
Review: i thought this book was excellent. i was amazed with such great variances by each author's views on hacking and cracking. this was one of the best books i'm reading this summer and is well worth buying it and paying for shipping because this book is amazing.
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Summary: Awesome!!!
Review: I thought this would be just like any other book. At the beginning, I was a little wary with the outline and didn't have much confidence, so off it went to the side. The next day I went through the extract chapters and couldn't put it down. Mr. Chirillo you did an AWESOME job of putting all that information together like that-keep going.
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Summary: Impressive
Review: I was very impressed with the completeness of this book. There is so much useful and interesting information that I stayed up most of the night reading. It's been a long time since I felt the urge to do that, especially with work in the am.
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Summary: A good read
Review: If we fail to learn from our past mistakes history is bound to repeat its self. Hack Attacks Encyclopedia is like the history of hacking unfolding before my eyes. A good read.
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Summary: RECOMMENDED
Review: In the past we've been full of praise for the two others books in this series. It's now been joined by another, called Hack Attacks Encyclopedia. If you want to know all there is to know from hackers of the 70s, 80s, and 90s, check it out!
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Summary: A MUST READ PREQUEL
Review: More than ever before, you will be fascinated by the first-hand account of documented hack attacks in this book. Does history repeat itself? Find out in this master encyclopedic reference of hacking texts. I hope to see more in this series.
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