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Best Of 2600 (2008)

by Emmanuel Goldstein(Favorite Author)

4.18 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

047041958X (ISBN13: 9780470419588)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated

review 1: The book is a good collection of 25 years of published hacking/phreaking history. The technical level is not that good, and some of the stuff is really laughable, but otherwise it would be a good start for anyone for the basic ideas of computer security, etc.I actually found very little new stuff for me in there, I found out that I've read the early phreaking stuff a long time ago and everything after 2000 is still fresh enough in my memory.
review 2: This is old school hacker at its best. The culture is all but lost now, but its nice to remember why and how we all started asking questions and getting answers when the systems that we all rely on today were being built.There's alot of this book that didn't make sense, it was broken into parts, based on technolog... morey. The parts that deal with telephony were in section one, computers in section two with small little redirects on social engineering here and there. I'm most happy about the few and poignant references to Mitnick. Nothing flashy, and certainly nothing glamorous, just a story to tell.The book is long, and there are parts that are, highly technical. But it would be a good read even if I didn't understand those aspects. less

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