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Source: TheRegister.co.uk - Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas
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Book review I'm not that keen on the word “hacker� in the modern, pejorative sense (I remember when it meant a good UNIX programmer) and I'm generally not that that impressed by hackers either - mostly they're not particularly clever and just got lucky. So, I came to this book in a not very positive frame of mind; except I do think that the famous Kevin Mitnick was unfairly demonised, and I'm not sure how much actual damage he did in the end. Although unauthorised intrusion into production systems is always bad, what chance is there they were tested for resilience during the sorts of things intruders do, for example.
In fact, however, I was won over pretty quickly (although Charles Arthur, see links, was less impressed). It’s an enjoyable and accessible read (perhaps thanks to Mitnick’s co-author), once you skip the somewhat overdone seven page Acknowledgements chapter.
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