Stealing the Network: The Complete Series Collector's Edition, Final Chapter, and DVD: The Complete Series Collector's Edition, Final Chapter, and DVD

Stealing the Network

by Johnny Long, Ryan Russell, Timothy Mullen

Philosophy; free; will; free will; determinism; awareness; ellipses; collected; works;

Genres: Hackers, Technical, Technology, Nonfiction, Computer Science, Cyberpunk

31 pages, ebook

First published April 1, 2009

About the author

Johnny Long is a Christian by grace, a professional hacker by trade, a pirate by blood, a ninja in training, a security researcher and author. He can be found lurking at his website (http://johnny.ihackstuff.com). He is the founder of Hackers For Charity(http://ihackcharities.org), an organization that provides hackers with job experience while leveraging their skills for charities that need those skills.

Reviews

[Takedown · Rating 3 out of 5]

Finally done with the whole series, can't say i particularly like it as much as i wanted to. Some parts was interesting some was boring. It is a book for hackers by hackers, no casual reading for you unless you work in infosec. I also didn't like verbose output from tools being posted, you could've just cut at least. Can't say i learned something that i already didn't know either. Dunno, overall i've got an impression that books too much stretched and you could easily cut in half. Anyway, the whole series kinda meh, but maybe worth to skim over.

[Dan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Each chapter was written by a different author, tells an overarching story. Some of the chapters were very well written, others not so much. This book is more about the individual stories and security principals than the overarching story, if you expect the main story thread to be fully tied up at the end you'll be disappointed. If you some fun hacking stories with some entertaining characters then you should enjoy this. If you are not familiar with security principals and programing already this book isn't going to turn you into a hacker overnight but it might give you an idea on where to get started.

[Matt · Rating 4 out of 5]

Entertaining and informational. I especially liked the combination of describing real attacks against a real-world setting. It's much more interesting to learn about security in the context of time and politics. Attacks are described as taking days or weeks to research and defense is described as post-cleanup reports by the good guys. On top of that, there's a decent background of how this sort of activity fits into the greater social and economic landscape so we get a glimpse of how governments and criminal organizations have taken root in the technology sector.

It's great reading all the way up to the last book.