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No matter how secure you think your computer is, it is still vulnerable to a variety of attacks that could steal your data or wreck your files. To help you protect yourself and your computer, this updated edition of Steal This Computer Book guides you through the attacks you face on the Internet and reveals the tricks hackers could be using on you right now.
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Review
Here's a capsule review of Steal This Computer Book 2: Don't bother. It's a directory of sites, combined with background information (mostly at USA Today depth) about Internet security and online privacy issues. Its practical advice reflects little more than common sense ("The best way to prevent and cure a computer virus is to buy an antivirus program") and its anecdotal material also tends toward the obvious ("...The better virus writers tend to be highly skilled programmers"). Even sections that sound promising ("Writing Your Own Online Harassment Program") contain very few details, and prove to be pretty much useless. In addition, it's printed in an annoying typeface, and several times it quotes obscenity-riddled hacker graffiti (because, you see, the book is so radical and edgy and all).
The particularly shameful thing about Steal This Computer Book 2 is that its title rips off Abbie Hoffman's Steal This Book, a 1970 how-to guide for anarchists and happy freeloaders. Where Hoffman strives in his book to subvert a society that he finds repellent, Wallace Wang merely describes some technologies and a few vaguely interesting stories about them. Some better choices: read Hacking Exposed, Second Edition for its excellent coverage of hackers' techniques and software tools, and Network Intrusion Detection for its accounts of attacks on secured networks. And, for an account of government surveillance of Internet users--perhaps an indication that the system needs subversion now more than ever--read The Puzzle Palace. --David Wall
Topics covered: Naughty things to do with computers and on the Internet. The author explores research sites with which you can dig up information on people, and explains something about gaining access to private computing resources. Historical exploits of black-hat hackers get considerable attention, and viruses get lots of attention.
From the Publisher
STEAL THIS COMPUTER BOOK will open your eyes to the hacker undergound. That's why it's a bestseller around the world, in multiple languages.
The CD-ROM in this book alone is worth the cover price, with about 250 software packages, including freeware, shareware, and demos. You'll hit the ground running with the software you need to protect yourself--or to delve further into hackerdom.
Don't go online without it.
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- PublisherNo Starch Press
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 1886411425
- ISBN 13 9781886411425
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number2
- Number of pages468
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