- ISBN13: 9781593271053
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This offbeat, non-technical book examines what hackers do, how they do it, and how readers can protect themselves. Informative, irreverent, and entertaining, the completely revised fourth edition of Steal This Computer Book contains new chapters that discuss the hacker mentality, lock picking, exploiting P2P file sharing networks, and how people manipulate search engines and pop-up ads. Includes a CD with hundreds of megabytes of hacking and security-related program… More >>
Steal This Computer Book 4.0: What They Won’t Tell You about the Internet
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Fist of all it is a cracker not a hacker. A hacker is some one who enjoys learning about computers and breaks down software to learn about it. Cracking is attacking another computer. Second of all it uses Visual Basic. VB is THE worst programming language. No hacker or cracker would recommend the use of such. It tells you how to be a Skript Kiddie. A SK is some one who uses other peoples software and goes around saying they are a hacker or a cracker. Thirdly virus writers aren’t good people. They are niether hackers or crackers. They are black hat crackers(NOT HACKERS). A cracker has ethics and is often reffered to as a white hat hacker. Blacks do bad things, and get little benefit if not zero, but merely enjoy ruining other peoples computers. Black hat hackers are usually SKs with a wee bit more knowledge.
If you want to be a hacker(which if you are a good one, means you can probably crack), I recommend using Linux, learning C and C++, Networking, A+ certified(don’t actually get certified but get a book, it provides basic hardware info). Get to know GCC and become fluent in C and C++. If you know no language and they will be your first, I recommend Python. Python is a good starting language. But first of all switch to Linux. use sourceforge.net and tldp.org for info and free software. That’ll start you up. Oh yeah…never use the “elite” jargon. If you use this you are no cracker you are a SK.
Rating: 1 / 5
I do NOT reccomend this book. I ordered it, and I thought that maybe something useful would be in it… all this book does is explain “WHAT” hackers do, not “HOW” they do it… if you are looking for a HOW book, i reccomend Maximum Linux Security… dont hesitate to buy that one, you wont put it down! (until the last few chapters where it kinda starts getting repetitious) but it is a GREAT how book if you ask me.
Rating: 1 / 5
Thier is no real useful information. The whole book is outdated now. Their was no real content, just a huge listing of websites that are not even their anymore.
Rating: 1 / 5
From the outside the book might appear to contain an abundance of useful information, while in fact this is merely a disguise. In actuality it focuses too much effort on redundancy of useless information with the wrong intension. The book is great if you want to know locations of popular search engines or the local news in Third World Countries that no one really thinks exist. Some ideas were actually present, but were not presented very well and are extreamely incomplete. “Steal This Computer Book” does have a lot of potential and I hope that Wallace Wang does release newer editions of this book as promised. I am curious to see where he takes the book in the future, but for the time being, in my opinion, it needs a new cover.
Rating: 2 / 5
For anyone who spends much time on the Internet, a lot of the cautionary tales are old hat. (Don’t give your credit card number to a person you don’t know. Something that looks too good to be true probably is. Nobody makes money stuffing envelopes. You can’t depend on a filter to keep pornography away from your children.) On the other hand, those who need this information will find a lot of the technical language incomprehensible. Really — by the time you are in the league where you’re going to write your own mass mailer or spam filter or the like, do you need to be told not to take candy from strangers?
Rating: 1 / 5