The first edition certainly peeked my interest when I came across it. It seemed very amatuerish from a written perspective though, which let the content down a bit and made It quite hard to follow. The author seemed to have a deep understanding of some subjects but only a light coverage of others. Overall good, but not worth what they were trying to charge in the shops for it. I blame the editorial approach mainly I guess. I hope it's improving in future editions.
The best book I've encountered is, I can highly recommend it, it's the best $32.99 USD you will ever spend on a computer security text... period: Hacking Exposed 5th Edition (Hacking Exposed) (Paperback) Stuart McClure, Joel Scambray, George Kurtz It has a companion book I haven't looked at too closely yet: Windows Server 2003 (Hacking Exposed) (Paperback) Cheers, Mike. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joshua Russel Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2005 11:36 AM To: Pablo Fernandez Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Who wrote Maximum Security? Oh yea. The is book is slightly fabled, but was good for its time though. On 9/4/05, Pablo Fernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you really like that book???? > > El dom, 04-09-2005 a las 02:16 +0530, Joshua Russel escribió: > > Hi List, > > > > I read Maximum Security many years ago, when it was still rated a > > moderately good book on hacking as there weren't many books in the > > market. > > > > But this question nags me all the time. Who really wrote Maximum Security? > > > > Who is the "Anonymous" guy? > > > > I think, it's not much of an issue to reveal the identity now as > > hacking is not much of a derogatory term and many people use it > > freely. > > > > -- Joshua > > _______________________________________________ > > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > > Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html > > Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ > > _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
