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Summary: This is an Excellent Read
Review: I really loved this book. It held my interest from beginning to end. I feel like I learned so much more about a subject that I didn't know too much about. I would read anything by this author!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: Teenage Hackers ????
Review: Not a bad book overall but it does try to cover far to much in sucha short space of time. I would have liked to have have more information on the hacks themselves. Good if you want an overview of hacking
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Summary: I didn't like this much.
Review: Read this book in one day. It's written well -- but something's missing.Dan Verton tells us that hackers are ordinary people, but he goes over the most extroadinary people in this book - hardly supporting his central thesis that hackers are ordinary. Personally, I have seen (and been involved in) the hacking scene for about 4 years. I have read many books on this topic, and many of the files on the web; most of this information can be found freely, and is dated in the 1980's. Verton frequently references hacking telephone switches; this happened before I was born. If you're not a hacker, just a normal person, this book isn't that complex about computers, but it does give a good bio of some great hackers (although I don't think he really talked to some of them.) If you're a normal person, this wouldn't alleviate your fears about hacking, as I believe Verton wanted to do, but it will make you more knowledgeable about them. A score of 1 was given because I feel this book is really just a compilation of random stuff found off the internet, with no equal distribution over all hackers. Verton also portays all hackers as bad -- not true (Look at me!).
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Summary: More like, Script-Kiddie Diaries...
Review: Reading this book I really got the feeling that the kids interviewed were nothing more that button clicking script kiddies. If the book treated them as such it may have been a good portrayal of the booming world of teenage computer vandals, but with it's sensationalist treatment of them as if they were some kind of genius uberhackers is insulting to the real computer security experts out there.
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Summary: Interesting
Review: The book may sound lugubrious but it is interesting, when you think about teenagers causing so much damage. The book could be interesting to your kids if and when you buy it.
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Summary: different lifestyles, motives, goals & stages of maturity
Review: They make international headlines for all the wrong reasons and everyday we read about the increasingly large-scale havoc they cause: the hacking into corporate computer systems, the theft of credit card numbers, and the defacement of Web sites with vulgar, disturbing and sometimes hate-filled messages. But still - teenage hackers - who are they? Social misfits? Loners? Pimpled face geeks? Dangerous and deceptive brainiac-villains? That is in fact the public's perception and how the media stereotype them. Yet real teenage hacker culture is a patchwork of different personalities, backgrounds, motivations and experiences. In other words, there is no one picture of the average teenage hacker. Dan Verton, the author of The Hacker Diaries: Confessions of Teenage Hackers is a former intelligence officer in the U.S. Marine Corps who currently writes for Computerworld and CNN.com, covering national cyber-security issues and critical infrastructure protection. For his Hacker Diaries, he interviewed well over a dozen real life hackers and explored beyond the myths and stereotypes surrounding these teenagers. Talk about getting to know your hacker. Verton does a great job at that. We see them with different lifestyles, different motives, different goals, and different stages of maturity. He describes many of them as being the kids bagging your groceries at the supermarket; working in the community service on the weekends; playing in the school orchestra or singing in the choir; struggling with their grades in math, science and English; getting good grades and planning for a bright future; hanging out with their friends after school and sometimes getting into trouble; and almost always feeding their obsession with computers and the Internet late at night. [+] Verton gives an exclusive, detailed account of the massive distributed-denial-of-service attacks against Yahoo!, ZDNet, EBay, CNN and Amazon in 2000, and the days of ordeal the FBI had in tracking down the culprit, MafiaBoy. The chapter runs like a thriller.
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Summary: Finally! A Book About Hacking That Anybody Can Enjoy
Review: This book is great and finally eliminates the stereotypes that the media feeds off of. Dan Verton gets up close and personal with real teenage hackers and shows us who they are as people, how and why they became hackers, what hackers are, and how, if you're a parent, to spot a hacker. Surprisingly, spotting a hacker in your midst is not as easy as you might think. Many parents out there probably don't even realize that their son or daughter is a card-carrying member of the hacker underground. Read this book to see what I mean. Parents are clueless and some of them just don't care. As Verton points out, many of the parents of these hackers were happy that their kids were "working at the computer" rather than out doing drugs or getting into trouble. Likewise, if you're a teacher you should also read this book. Almost every hacker whose life is profiled in The Hacker Diaries says that their computer teachers in high school knew next to nothing compared to them. Hacking became a way for many of them to challenge themselves intellectually. Want to help prevent teenagers from getting involved in hacking that could get them in trouble? Then create computer teachers who know more than the students. This is a definite read for anybody interested in the information age culture that we all live in today. You don't have to be a hacker or a computer whiz to understand what's in this book either. Verton writes like an information age Hemingway.
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Summary: the good book
Review: This book is one that does start with a not so great intro but once you get past it you find a well written book that grabs your eyes. The Book does talk about hacking but it is not i repeat is not a how to guide. In the end it shows what will happen to hacker if he or she is caught good or bad. It also takes a hard look at the hacker life style the portrit painted by the news can be wright in some caces but is wroung in many so to any one who likes a good book to read this is the one.
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Summary: A good read.
Review: This book pens down the most real life hackers i've read. The authors made an effort to keep his information accurate yet interesting. You may also pick up some some knowledge on tools that enables you to do "stuffs". I especially love the story on Willie Gonzalez, the Unlikely White Hat from page 142 onwards. The story on Operation Claymore (Hunt for Mafiaboy) was a great read too and it gave much behind the scene knowledge to many. Get it, you won't regret it!
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Summary: will change your view of a computer hacker
Review: This book will change your view of what you thought of the typical teenage hacker. This book has 8 stories about teenage hackers as the title shows. The chapters on average are 20 to 25 pages long so the author does not have very long to go into deep detail of each hacker or group of hackers he delves into there family lifes some but does not have long to go for their hacks and exploits .
Some of the characters are as follow
1) Genocide who grew up in a shack in alaska with no electricity telephone or running water.
2) Theres joe magee and noid who where complete opposites but curiosity in the familys new vcr would start their interest into computers. A intersting story from the book about joe and the family vcr was when he was 10 he had a problem with insomnia and late night eating because of it. So one night withsuch problem he goes down stairs to make a pb&j sandwich and when he thinks he is going to get busted he shoves the sandwich into the vcr and a sure mess came about with the heat melting the jelly.
3) Theres prometheus and explotion with promethius being a self-proclaimed satan worshiper living to deface christian and religous websites.
One of two out of this group that really amazed me was 15 year old anna moore who had computer friendly parents at age 4 she could read at a 3rd grade level she also was the first female hacker to win the ethical hacking contest at the annual defcon hacker convention in vegas.
The other one that was really amazing is h.d. moore who started hacking at age 13 who got a job working for the air force before he was 18. He developed on his own alot of programs that are uaed today and even gave a big presentation at a convention at the age of 17.
I said at the start that this book would change your veiw of hackers in that they are not the teenagers that tv and moives portray or what most of us probably think of they are the kid next door the star quarterback and such not as alot the evil names they choose as shockvalue and that most of these kids go on to productive lives seeing that hacking has become something other than what they veiwed it as away to share info and despies those who made money from it to now the feeling that the most modern day hackers are only concern with damaging and destroying websites. This book is a little hard to get threw if you are a computer novice as far as the terminology.
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