Fri, 30 Jun 2006
Steal this Computer
Wallace Wang, Steal This Computer Book 4.0,
No Starch Press
This book is probably not for those who get
upset about the iniquity of parts of the
human race. It guides us nicely through the
computer and internet underworld and as such
it's a fairly good guide to a lot of the
possible things that can go wrong.
It is not, however, a criminal's guidebook.
The details are mostly left out so budding
scipt kiddies will need to do further research.
The book starts off by looking at the early hackers,
their attitude (same as now - explore!) and what
they did. Then onto the PC pioneers, the internet,
and what's happening today and what might be likely to
happen in the future. There's also a section on locking down
your computer. In this you can save yourself a fair bit
of bother (heh, heh, except for getting it going) by
using an Operating System like Plan 9.
Have fun.
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