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Bambbles Rambles
Bambbles Rambles rated it 11 years ago
I totally enjoyed reading this book. It is the first time in a college class that I have enjoyed the text book.I had this on my DNF shelf, which is totally misleading. I didn't finish it because I ran out of time that year. I have the book sitting on my bookshelf, waiting to be continued. This book ...
whiteg
whiteg rated it 12 years ago
Jest to zbiór różnych opowiadań o tematyce infiltracji itp, raczej dla pasjonatów IT i 'hakerstwa'.
The Golden Darter
The Golden Darter rated it 12 years ago
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1hoxfa/what_nonfiction_books_should_everyone_read_to/
Dancing Words
Dancing Words rated it 13 years ago
Kevin Mitnick is brilliant! Very entertaining and informative. Although I'm not a computer geek myself, I understood the technical parts.
kennethjmcginnis
kennethjmcginnis rated it 13 years ago
I kept wondering as I read this: what's the other side to this story? Mitnick's creativity and perseverance really impress me, but at the same time he really comes across as a sociopath who's sense of entitlement and lack of ethics annoy me - especially when he spends such a large portion of the boo...
katiewilkins186
katiewilkins186 rated it 13 years ago
The Art of Deception is written by a hacker (or, as he calls himself, a “social engineer”) and describes the ways in which hackers can exploit human nature to bypass security measures. The book was hyped as being “like reading the climaxes of a dozen complex thrillers”, but I don’t think it lived u...
Novel Tease
Novel Tease rated it 13 years ago
This was Kevin D. Mitnick's "get even" book. The sole reason for writing it seems to have been to name everybody who ever did him a bad turn. The hacking, and particularly the social engineering, is fascinating, but the character is a louse. He seems to think that just because he didn't intend to ...
chadkoh
chadkoh rated it 14 years ago
Some good anecdotes about Steve in the early days, but mostly reads as a pamphlet from Apple's PR department.
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