OneMillionMice started reading Where Wizards Stay Up Late by Katie Hafner
Twenty five years ago, it didn't exist. Today, twenty million people worldwide are surfing the …
Where'd this whole Internet thing come from anyway?
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OneMillionMice commented on Hacking, 2nd Edition by Jon Erickson
Had this one on my shelf for seven years or so. Guess I should finally get to it.
OneMillionMice reviewed Cult of the Dead Cow by Joseph Menn
The shocking untold story of the elite secret society of hackers fighting to protect our …
Slow Start, Heavy Finish
5 stars
Content warning Story Spoilers
At first I thought this book started too slowly. Talking with some infosec elders showed me that I just didn't understand the impact of those early events.
The cDc are legends for a reason.
You will get the details of how they: - coined use of 1337 as a descriptor - regularly held the first modern hacker conference - briefed Bill Clinton on Internet security - testified before congress on Internet security under their anonymous handles - made Back Orifice and a sequel, a malware so pernicious it essentially forced Microsoft to care about security seriously from then on - coined the term, and mainstreamed the practice, of hacktivism
Then you get to the book's second half. Legacies are forged in code and blood as the stakes continue to rise in the post-9/11 era.
Well worth the time to read.
OneMillionMice started reading Cult of the Dead Cow by Joseph Menn
The shocking untold story of the elite secret society of hackers fighting to protect our …
The history and activities of the legendary cDc. The first third feels pretty dry, but once you hit the hacktivism activities things begin to pickup.
I'm already considering a re-read to make sure I absorb it better. Well worth the time so far.