Amusingly, I am reading Dark Rivers Of The Heart by Dean Koontz, which was written in 1994. The main character, Spencer Grant (there's the name of a Koontz hero for you) spent years in the LAPD Computer Crimes division before going off the grid. In the early parts of the book, Koontz describes the laborious process which Grant goes through to access the LAPD mainframe (via a backdoor he himself added) and from there how he is able to access networks with reciprocity to the LAPD. It's fascinating to see a fiction book describe the steps a hacker has to take without just making it "computer magic."
Koontz also shows that while Grant has access to lots of information, there is no guarantee that the information has any value whatsoever, and Grant has to use some deductive reasoning with the information he has in order to concoct a lead. Nice find, Ed. On Jul 15, 10:58 am, Edward Crosby <[email protected]> wrote: > These are awesome. > > http://gizmo.do/orOSCP > > Yeah. I love the fact in all - ALL - TV shows and movies that it takes just > a few minutes to hack into a network, even incredibly secured government > networks. When in most cases it probably takes hours, days and, more > feasibly, weeks to get into someone else's network, if at all. > > ---------------------------------------- > Have a Better One, > Edward Crosbyhttp://about.me/edwardcrosby -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en.
