Steel Bolt Hacking

Rating:
Summary: Quite Poor
Review: Very amateur printing and binding. Much of the information is repeated several times over verbatim... feels very much like the book was padded out to its length.

The "for computer people" angle is a red herring. The author simply comments - repeatedly - on the similarity between exploiting flaws in locks and exploiting flaws in computer security protocols. This is never explored or elaborated upon, nor is lock picking explored from a particularly computerish angle.

The information presented in the book is fairly clear, but there's very little of it. Furthermore, all of the information in the book is freely available - and better written - in several online guides.

Overall, I'm quite disappointed. Not worth the money.

Rating:
Summary: I'm FURIOUS!!!
Review: Why doesn't the author just write a book about shop lifting or being a pickpocket? Being a locksmith is a time-honored profession that passes down professional skills from teacher to student. Lock picking is not a sport and should never be considered as one. If you want to be a locksmith-then go to school-but don't pick locks for fun. Books like these should be burned and the authors jailed.