Thursday, July 24, 2003

On the book front, I am now reading "Hacker's Challenge 2" and "The Hacker Crackdown". In the Challenge, I'm about halfway through it, and enjoying it quite a bit. It contains almost two dozen stories of hacking (intrusion on computer networks) and presents the evidence as collected, then you are supposed to figure out what happened and what you need to do to fix it and make sure it doesn't happen again. In the back of the book are the solutions, so I am reading the book with two bookmarkers...

"The Hacker Crackdown" is an older book about the phone hackers of the 80's, describing a lot of the legal activities and jackbooted thugs kicking in doors and confiscating kid's computers. A good read, I'm about halfway through it as well. This book is in html format, one of the many that I got on that cd of books. I reformatted it and converted it to html, and I am reading it on my Zaurus.