The Hacker Diaries : Confessions of Teenage Hackers
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| Rating | : | 4.96 (501 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0072223642 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 219 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-25 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Skip the introd and the rest is good" according to J. Chang. This is a pretty solid book. Well written, with lots of interviews and information on hacking. Not a how to book by any meansReminds me of the Maters of Deception book from a few years back.The only draw back is a rathererr silly intro.. Please Don't Buy This Book! Mr. Verton should be ashamed of himself for the way he cultivated information for this book. Today I came across a copy of correspondence Mr. Verton had with our son, that I discovered in 2002, while monitoring his computer use. At that time, when computers were in their infancy, he bated our teenaged son, through emails, to entice him to brag about his "hacking" bravado. As a result my son's computer use was shut down and he learned a valuable lesson about being duped. My husband and I were trying to raise a family while dealing with swift technological advances and it's influences. I feel he underhandedly used our children to gather err. "Let me see" according to A Customer. What goes on behind those eyes? The cover of this book really sets the feel of this book. What goes on in the deep minds of teenage hackers and what hides behind their eyes? Dan Verton has done his research and it shows. His conversations and interviews with these teenage hackers take us on a tour not often taken by the everyday public.This book tells fascinating tales of intrigue and information security curiosity from the hacker "underground".This book sheds light on the dark rarely discussed area of a few teenagers' lives that are heavily influenced by computers, computer security and more importantly hacking. If you are a struggling p
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One teenager's insatiable curiosity as to how the family's VCR worked was enough to trigger a career of cracking into computer systems. And he's not alone.Computer hacking and Web site defacement has become a national pastime for America's teenagers, and according to the stories you'll read about in The Hacker Diaries--it is only the beginning. Learn how they think, find out what it was like for them growing up, and understand the internal and external pressures that pushed them deeper and deeper into the hacker underground. Through fascinating interviews with FBI agents, crimin
He is also the former Associate Editor, Defense, for the trade publication Federal Computer Week. Marine Corps. Dan is a former intelligence officer in the U.S. . Dan has been asked to speak at various Internet security conferences, including a recent event at the United Nations in New York, where he mode