Re: REVIEW: "World War Hack", Ethan Bull/Tsubasa Yozora

[Blue Boar <BlueBoar () thievco com>]

Why are the threats not attached to the reviews for our amusement?

                                        BB

On 5/3/13 4:07 PM, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah wrote:
> BKWWHACK.RVW   20121009 
>
> "World War Hack", Ethan Bull/Tsubasa Yozora, 2012, 978-0-9833670-8-6
> %A   Ethan Bull
> %A   Tsubasa Yozora
> %C   9400 N. MacArthur Blvd., Suite 124-215, Irving, TX   75063
> %D   2012
> %E   Gwendolyn Borgen
> %G   978-0-9833670-8-6 0-9833670-8-6
> %I   Viper Entertainment Inc./Viper Comics
> %O   U$7.95 wyatt () worldwarhack com www.worldwarhack.com
> %O  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0983367086/robsladesinterne
>   http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0983367086/robsladesinte-21
> %O   http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0983367086/robsladesin03-20
> %O   Audience n- Tech 1 Writing 1 (see revfaq.htm for explanation)
> %P   72 p.
> %T   "World War Hack"
>
> Someone (eventually we find out they are backed by the Chinese) has
> hacked into the United States military and government control systems. 
> Fortunately, despite being in complete control and untraceable, all
> they seem to want to do is make one military drone act up.
>
> The US government immediately swings into action, and sponsors a
> hacking contest, to try and identify suitably talented young geniuses
> (genii?) to find out what is going on.
>
> It's hard to follow what is going on, since the artwork makes it
> difficult to differentiate between characters.  There are young people
> with bad haircuts, and there are other people with suits.  Some people
> are female.  After that, it gets hard to tell who's who.  One of the
> hackers is a government agent, another one has a criminal record but
> seems to be a son of a suited government agent.
>
> Some of the technical and hacking activity is somewhat realistic, but
> other aspects are bizarre, and betray a complete lack of understanding
> of basic technology.  For example, at different times a programming
> language gets "hacked" (in the sense of breaking into it), and at
> another time a government administrator can't tell what computer
> language has been used to write a specific program.  In the real world
> of programming and hacking neither of these scenarios makes any sense. 
> Absent Ken Thompson's famous speech nobody "hacks" a language, and
> generally nobody cares what language has been used to write a utility
> once it is operating.  (No programmer ever said LISP was a concise
> language, and there is no way that even a "skin" on top of LISP would
> look like C.)  At another point two devices "piggyback" on the same IP
> address, which simply does not work in networking terms.
>
> There are aspects of this story that are realistic.  One is that, if
> you are not careful with your systems, someone can penetrate them and
> mess with you.  If there are any other useful factors in this story, I
> can't think of them offhand.
>
> (As usual, the draft of this review was submitted to the
> author/publisher for comment prior to publication.  I often get rude
> email in response, sometimes threats of physical harm, and once even a
> death threat.  [Yes, really.]  In this case the publisher has
> threatened unspecified legal action "to protect the copyright on our
> work."  I would be interested to see the publisher's reaction to
> counsel explaining the "commentary" aspect of the concept of "fair
> use.")
>
> copyright, Robert M. Slade   2012     BKWWHACK.RVW   20121009
>
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