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Secrets of a Super Hacker

Secrets of a Super Hacker

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Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Dated, but entertaining
Review: The book is entertaining, but it was written for a completely different era. This book can no longer be seriously accepted as a guide to computer hacking. If you know what a dial-up BBS was, you may be entertained by the stories within. If you're an old-timer techie, you may be amused with how the Knightmare describes how to repair a 5 1/4 inch disk; slice it open and place the magnetic material inside of a fresh disk. Other than the nostalgia, I do like how the book emphasizes hacker ethics, and the friendly pursuit of knowledge. If anything useful is to be gleaned from it besides that, it would be the segment on the lost art of social engineering. The book does not mention Unix, or the Internet.

Simply put, this book may be entertaining, but is no longer useful.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Dont be fooled by the name
Review: The book may have been written by a person who had collected lot of news paper articles and complied them to a book. If you want to know what the book is all about follow a link in any www site on hacking and you will have more material than you can read on this book.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: The Knightmare is cool, but the book is out dated.
Review: The Knightmare and The Mentor inspired me to become what I am. The book is alright..To be honast, I went to sleep in the middle of it.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: What a Crock
Review: The Knightmare is no super-hacker. His advice and/or tactics are totally obscene. This book should be avoided unless you want a good laugh

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: This book is alittle old but great for any true hacker!
Review: This book , is a good book i suggest it to anyone wanting to learn a little more on Hacking and the Internet! Buy it you will not regret it! i promise! good luck on your choice~

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: A complete waste of time
Review: This book gives nothing of value. It doesn't tell you anything about true hacking. The guy who wrote this book gave a brief history of some snooping around he did at work.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: TALK ABOUT DISTORTION
Review: This book gives people who are clueless about hacking the wrong idea. Its points people in the wrong direction and it gives hackers a bad name. Theres only one way to be a good hacker, reading and research. You can't just read one false-titled book and expect to be another Phiber Optik.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: It's got a little good information, but it's mostly BS.
Review: This book had some information that was useable, but most of it was just common sense. The other information was completely spurious. If you can discern between the two, it could be an educational book.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: This book was a complete Joke.
Review: This book is sickening. I find it harsh that someone would actually waste time writing such a horrible book. I am a Unix sysadmin, and can honestly say that there is absolutely nothing in this book even remotely related to Hacking.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Too vague and outdated!
Review: This book may have been good reading in the early 90's, but now it is only good if you are interested in reading about the good-ole-days of BBS's and 9600 baud modems. A little too anecdotal and vague for anyone interested in learning about the true methods of a hacker. For real info, read phrack: http://www.phrack.com


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