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Steal This Computer Book 4.0: What They Won't Tell You about the Internet

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Good book. It is worth your money. (unless you're a bum. )

By A Customer - July 12, 1999

Overall this is a good book. The first part is sorta stupid, though. It talks mainly about how not to only listen to one person but to get information from multiple sources. It could be summed up in about a page. Chapter 4 talks about buying computers and software. It helped me out by giving me some tricks to do next time I buy a computer.Chapter 5 tells you about keeping your files secure with encryption. It tells you about some different types of encryption algorithms and how to write your own encryption programs. It also shows you how to play some dirty tricks. It talked about using anonymous remailers to send anonymous email and talked about just how anonymous they were. It even told you how to surf the web anonymously so that people couldn't receive information about your computer, browser, and more.Chapter 6 told about phone phreaking history such as captian crunch. Wallace then goes on by telling you possibly things that could've happened but didn't. When... read more

Good for newbies, but not for the well-seasoned.

By A Customer - July 25, 1999

"Steal This Computer Book" is a good introduction to the existence of the dark side of computing, but there's not a whole lot here for the advanced user. Some chapters just seem to be lists of reference material (URLs, mostly); others provide some in-depth info on specific topics. If you're looking for a "how-to" guide, this is not the book for you. The final chapter, "Hostile Java Applets," contains the entire code of three such applets, but has no explanation of how they work -- if you don't already know Java, this chapter will do almost nothing for you. It has the feel of an author who has some basic knowledge of the subject, and has read some other books or articles on the topic, but then went and found some things and just pasted them into his book. The section on phreaking is the same way. My advice? Buy this book, read it all the way through and copy down all the URLs, and then return it. Even advanced users (like, I daresay,... read more

Eclectic and not completely focused, but fun...

By Thomas Duff "Duffbert" - June 3, 2006

This is one of those books that never quite turns out as good as I hoped it would be... Steal This Computer Book 4.0 : What They Won't Tell You About the Internet by Wallace Wang. It tries to cover a lot of ground, and as a result it's not as focused as it should be...

Contents:

Part 1 - The Early Hackers: The Hacker Mentality; The First Hackers - The Phone Phreakers; Hacking People, Places, and Things

Part 2 - The PC Pioneers: ASNI Bombs and Viruses; Trojan Horses and Worms; Warez (Software Piracy)

Part 3 - The Internet Hackers: Where The Hackers Are; Stalking A Computer; Cracking Passwords; Digging Into A Computer With Rootkits; Censoring Information; The Filesharing Networks

Part 4 - The Real World Hackers: The Internet Con Artists; Finding People On The Internet; Propaganda As News and Entertainment; Hacktivism - Online Activism; Hate Groups and Terrorists on the Internet

Part 5 - The Future - Hacking For Profit:... read more

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