Hack Attacks Encyclopedia: A Complete History of Hacks, Cracks, Phreaks, and Spies over Time

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Summary: five stars on the scale of worthless-ness
Review: this book is culled from sources across the internet, almost all of the information is freely available somewhere. in most cases the author has not even bothered to change the filenames or unique file extensions. the book itself is barely an index of the cd-rom, with the first paragraph of a file serving as a description. there is some (un)original writing done by the author himself, comprising a miniscule amount of the actual text. if you would like to learn what these files are actually about, you would be much better served by going to the sites they were taken from

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Summary: best material for your review
Review: this book is my favorite. so interesting to see the documents written by hackers and crackers even some from my birth country. very useful to have to read especially on a long plane ride or at lunch.

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Summary: Well structured representation
Review: This book is not exactly like an encyclopedia, it's a well structured and organized history book in an encyclopedia format (which is better ;). I found extracts from Draper, Mitnick, Mentor and others too.

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Summary: this is a copied book
Review: This book is trash. This is just a printed version of textfiles.com that gives you all of the "lost" files for free. This is just a horrible book that takes advantage of people not using google first to find free information.

I think this book is equivalent to somebody filling up a bottle with tap water and selling it for 20 dollars as pure water found in the most secret places.

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Summary: An interesting book
Review: This book is very interesting. With pages and pages of how exploits were created in the first place, you'll be amazed.

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Summary: Very Enjoyable Read
Review: This book surveys the landscape of the security world and provides historical and current perspective on the field. This is a good book both for security professionals, and anyone else concerned about hacking.

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Summary: Excellent book
Review: This is an excellent book for anyone interested in the details and the history of hacking. This is the first book of the series that I purchased, and it was enough for me to go get the others. Keep up the good work.

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Summary: Buy this book-I have all three
Review: This is the last book in the set. It's much different than the first two in that it has a gazillion hacks and cracks from security professionals and hackers from at least 123 countries-I counted so far.

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Summary: Brilliant
Review: Thousands of detailed articles. A comprehensive education in security for every level reader. There are some with technically-savvy requirements, but most in lessor terms. Best pub from John Wiley since Secrets and Lies.

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Summary: Hands down the best book available on infosec
Review: Well constructed text all about cyberculture and the dark underside of security. Within I found writings by Cap'n Crunch (famous phreaker), Justin Peterson, Kevin Mitnick (hacker celebrity), Kevin Poulsen (aka. Dark Dante), L0pht and Masters of Deception (famous hacking groups), Mixter (author of Targa and TFN), and Robert T. Morris, just to name a few. To think there's much more in here makes this book hands down the best title on infosec available today.