Book recommendation - maybe not!

[bhoff at itworldclass.com (Brett Hoff)]

Note his books page even has bad coding see the bottom of page
 http://learn-how-to-hack.net/index.php?

the <div id="footer> tag

sloppy....just plain sloppy ;)

Dmnhunter


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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:pauldotcom-bounces at mail.pauldotcom.com] On Behalf Of Michael Miller
Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 11:38 AM
To: PaulDotCom Security Weekly Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Pauldotcom] Book recommendation - maybe not!

That sounds almost as bad as a series of un-named books that had one
paragraph on what the command was and then the man pages for that command.

-mmiller

On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 8:24 AM, Robert McGrew <wesleymcgrew at gmail.com>
wrote:
> I requested and received a review copy of this, on the off chance that 
> it fell into the category of "weird and eccentric, but completely 
> brilliant" (see Russell Walter's "Secret Guide to Computers", amazing 
> work, do check this out).
>
> It doesn't fall into this category at all.
>
> It's exactly as bad as you are imagining. ?I don't have the PDF handy 
> to cite exactly what, but I do recall that it's poorly formatted, 
> poorly written, chews up a lot of pages with lists and screenshots, 
> and contains a lot of information that is just plain wrong. ?(Just 
> like a lot of non-novelty-press books I get! :) )
>
> It was bad enough that I just didn't even want to write anything about 
> it. ?I figured there wasn't much risk that readers of my site would 
> care to spend any money on it anyways, so I'd just be beating on it 
> for the humor. ?That's fun too sometimes, but I just couldn't bring 
> myself to spend any more time with it.
>
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Robin Wood <dninja at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I just found this and wondered how I'd got on so long in security without
it.
> > http://learn-how-to-hack.net/index.php
> >
> > Quote: "You will aquire knowledge nonexistant to 99.9% of the people 
> > in the world!"
> >
> > I want to be in that 0.1%!
> >
> > Follow the link at the bottom to get to this page:
> > http://rafayhackingarticles.blogspot.com/
> >
> > I think it should be in all our RSS feeds.
> >
> > Enjoy
> >
> > Robin
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