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Summary: Snoozer
Review: Pretty much a waste of time. Kept waiting for the good stuff, some really nasty info, which never came. Book seems geared towards real beginners. I am one, but this to me even seems weak. The author seems quite impressed with herself.
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Summary: Harmless rubbish.
Review: This book sucks, it is really, really bad. As a computer security expert, I can assure you that only the most blatantly incompetent idiots would leave their systems in a situation whereby some of the lame ploys outlined in the book could work. Even telnet "hack my box" banners pale by comparison.Furthermore, the "knowledge" the author presents is superficical at best and outright flawed sometimes; clearly she (or whoever her equally incompetent shadow writer may be) has no understanding whatsoever of the underlying workings of UNIX System V and even the windows "hacks" presented are little more than trivial. This woman is a DOS user, and you can smell the stink of a dos untermenschen a mile off. I bought this book in a state of panic, thinking that some irresponsible idiot had opened pandora's box and was encouraging innocent kids to run riot with potentially dangerous info. I was wrong, and now I sleep nights knowing that there are morons out there that bought this trash. If that is the average intellect of hackers out there these days, then there is no reason to be worried. The author says she was at the centre of a hacking war, I think she was probably the victim of self-delusion.
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Summary: I thought it was a helpful book for beginners
Review: i thought the book was helpful in some ways. It was very general and didnt cut to the point but i still found it very useful but i would DEFINITELY RECOMMEND IT FOR BEGINNERS.
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Summary: A complete and utter waste..
Review: ..of time, money, trees and ink. If you believe that a very basic Windows 95/98 knowledge coupled with an even more limited knowledge of a few Unix shell commands equates to hacking, then by all means buy spend the thirty bucks and join the author in her fantasy world. You deserve each other. On the positive side, someone has finally managed to write a book more ridiculous than "Secrets of a Super Hacker". Way to go. For those interested in "hacking", try books from O'Reily & Associates, and pick up a copy of _The New Hacker's Dictionary_ by Eric S. Raymond, and remember: Friends Don't Let Friends Read The Happy Hacker!
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Summary: Super hacking,here we go!
Review: This is one of the best computer boox I have ever read.To those of you who do not like the book,I want to say one thing.You can hack legally.OK?
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Summary: Meinel's book is useful!
Review: I gave this book 3 stars because I have not actually read all of it, only sections taken from it, however what I have read of this book, and other things by Carolyn Meinel have been useful to me.I did not know a lot of the computer jargon, and when trying to read computer books I could barely understand every second word. If you are trying to learn how to hack the US airforce, or studying up for your sys admin job then obviously you don't want to buy a newbie book about harmless hacking and how to have fun with your computer. So don't. The basic level of some of the hacking you learn to do helps build your confidence and gives you an immediate sense of acheivement. You also absorb some of the hacker and computer jargon so you have a better understanding of the more complex computer books. Many pathetic attempts are made to insult Ms Meinel or are simply a joke. All these responses are the same and boring and probably written by the same sad people. It is necessary to understand that the most important thing is to have fun with your computer and learn (to be a great hacker you have to start somewhere) without getting thrown in gaol or be investigated by the FBI.
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Summary: her version of security might as well be an iMAC
Review: Anyone who 1)pays money for this book, nd 2)thinks they got their money's worth, is obviously not a hacker, and has certainly taken the wrong step to making them one. Hackers don't write books like this, and more to the point, you don't gain security, and ha'x'or skillz be not ever breaking the law, I would rather read the dictionary than read this book. Anyone would probably learn more that way too...
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Summary: Trees died for this?
Review: It is an absolute pity that many trees died to publish this worthless piece of drivel...twice! This book is clearly targeted at youngsters (pandering comes to mind), fails miserably at conveying a fundamental knowledge base from which one can develop further technical skills, and in summary appears to be a platform for the author's personal agendas. Don't buy it. I recommend you invest in Hacking Exposed instead.
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Summary: content free, no tech value
Review: it is trash, but at least she took my image off the cover
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Summary: Some people will buy anything.
Review: How astonished I am that Amazon is offering this in the book section! I am even more surprised to see it come up as a suggested book. I don't read joke books, and I like my fiction to be better written than this. It is certainly fitting that the average reader that bought this book also bought "Secrets of a Super Hacker; Knightmare, et al." We all know how deep the secrets are in that one. I'm an actual security professional, and female, and That Creature offends me by her very existence. Get help, Carlolyn.
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