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Summary: EAT YOUR OWN WORDS!
Review: Why are you bad-mouthing my mommy's book? Obviously you haven't learned that we can all be friends. Check out Barney.com and MenWhoLoveChildren.com for examples of how to act!
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Summary: i am now a k-rad haxor
Review: Because of this book i bought AOL and now am a super hacker. My parents said that i was a hacker. EVERYONE should buy this book if they want to HAXOR from Windows 95, hahahahahaha, actually the only ppl who want you to read this book are the high up sysadmins who never want you to know anything, if you read this book, you will be running down the right track to become a 31337 AOL skilless nothing, pheer.
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Summary: this book is ok, for nubies.
Review: Well, what's there to say...
This book is ok for nubies, it dont give out enough information, and has too much "junk" writen in it.
You don't need to spend the money on it unless you know nothing or little at all.
My advice would be to skip this book if you know how to change your background, and read maximum security (allthoe still not the "master" book) it will teach you WAY more than this one, for almost the same price.
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Summary: Save your money, folks.
Review: On page 67 she writes, "I make my living asking dumb questions." This is probably the most accurate line in the whole book.What can I say? I'm surprised this book made it to print. I'm even more surprised that the author can call herself a "Security Expert" and "White-Hat Hacker" with a straight face. Carolyn Meinel has the audacity to equate hacking with everything from altering your Windows start up screen to display (and I quote) "elite haxor graphics" to using telnet and writing email. Her writing style is severely lacking, unless you count spelling and grammatical errors (approx. 1 per page) and her apparent inability to articulate a coherent thought as style. Aside from that, technical errors, numerous contradictions and a general lack of knowledge abound. She's most obviously not the "expert" she claims. Even if you were able to read past the grammatical errors, spelling errors (can't elite hacker types use spellcheck?), inconsistancies and technical inaccuracies, you'd learn just enough to get a knock on the door from the FBI, possible jail time and the ridicule of real hackers everywhere. To sum it up, if you're an AOL warrior and need a step by step guide to changing your Windows background, or a spammer who wants outdated and incomplete tips on forging email, but can't be bothered to look it up on the Web, this book is for you. If you're truly interested in hacking and computer security, however, stay away from this book. You'll be sorely disappointed. Instead consider picking up _The_New_Hacker's_Dictionary_ by Eric S. Raymond, _The_Hacker_Crackdown_ by Bruce Sterling, and consider books on Unix, Linux, TCP/IP, networking, C/C++, Perl, HTML, or JavaScript, because what you want is *not* in _The_Happy_Hacker_.
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Summary: Hmmm. No one said this was a comedy.
Review: This is by far one of the the worst books written on the subject of hacking, the computer underground and computer security I have ever had the displeasure of reading. Along the dozens of grammatical errors, misspellings and contradictions, there is a prevading air of ignorance regarding the field of computer security. For those seriously interested in computer security, try books by "O'Reily and Associates" on Linux, networking and the like. On a positive note, those already well versed in the computer security field might want to pick a copy of "The Happy Hacker" up for a good laugh.
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Summary: not good but not bad...so so
Review: This book is not bad. This is the first book that let you have a peek into how to do hacking. Carolyn shows you how to use Unix to have a peek at other remote computer. She does not show you how to break into other computers in detail. Other Unix book is dry and boring. But, Carolyn will show you what Unix commands are available for you to use. Anyway, I like this book. Price is a bit steep. I'm having fun poking around with this book. If you expect to learn something useful and do something with this book, DONT buy it. Conclusion: For newbie, this book is good enough. If you know something about Unix, better PASS this book (dont waste your money.)
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Summary: Pathetic...
Review: If only this book were written in English, I would treat it as an instance of unintentional humour. Unfortunately, it's only half-English. Meinel knows nothing of computers - and of her language. Yet she has the impudence to write this and to call herself a "security expert". Please buy *anything* instead of this "book" - even a silly game will leave you feeling better. As for people who get mad at all of us giving this "book" one star (too bad there is no "zero star" rank), allow me to explaing their pattern of behaviour: they bought the book, paying a lot of money; they read it; because of their next-to-none knowledge, they were very impressed; they believed the lying statements of Menial's; they thought they were hackers or security experts now. Then they surfed to this page and saw what the book really is like. They got mad, understanding that not only aren't they any "experts" at all, but that they look even more pathetic than they used to. This made them mad and they started calling people who know better "slobs". Which is a risky thing to do, considering that anyone able to judge this book right knows much more than Meinel and all her worshippers combined do...
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Summary: WOW... Garbage.
Review: You will learn nothing from this book that you can't get anywhere else free... It's not even the interesting stuff about OS's security. This is a GARBAGE book.
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Summary: This book is not for people who use computers
Review: I was very dissapointed with this book. Instead of taking it to a used book seller I threw it in the trash so that no one else could read it. The technical knowledge was sub sub-average. Examples of "hacking" windows 95 were pathetic. This is deplorable. Not even reference to Microsoft related publications or how to obtain the correct references so that the user doesn't damage their system. Even worse, suggestions to "re-install" every time a problem occurs. What kind of joke is that. It got worse with the summation on things such as port scanning, TCP/IP descriptions, even the "common-sense" warnings were wrong. Instead of reading this, why not learn to program in C or C++ and write drivers or help secure machines against attacks. This book leads people in the wrong direction and its author obviously doesn't know the material.
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Summary: oh my god, what a waste of money...
Review: This book was a great disappointment for me...although I got a degree in computer science I thought that I might be able to learn something from this book...the truth is however, I didn't, and I don't think that there are many people out there who can. Even my 14-year old son knows alot more about computer security, and he's not a hacker. I can't understand the reader from Belgium who gave this book 5 stars. Could you PLEASE tell me what it is that you actually learned from that book ? And as for the book being a perfect present, do you really think that any kid will be impressed by telnetting to port 79 and giving a 'kewl' command ? You don't know much about children do you ? I'm sorry that I'd not read about Mrs. Meinels hacking 'career' BEFORE I ordered the book, cause in that case, I'd never have bought it...
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