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Re:Kevin Mitnick Now Selling Zero-Day Exploits by rickdale on Wednesday September 24, 2014 @01:10PM (#8362665)
I was fooled into this when his first book was released, "The Art of Deception". I think I read the first three pages and heart sank because it wasn't a book about computer stuff really at all and I started thinking this guy is a fraud. but mostly I was fooled by marketing. (I was 12 at the time). I just remember being very let down by the book and not being a fan of Mitnik for that reason.

The comment section of this post has an underlying anger towards the hi-jacking of the word 'hacker' as it was and is applied to kevin mitnik and thus misunderstood by the public waaaaay too often.

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Re:Kevin Mitnick Now Selling Zero-Day Exploits by malexw on Wednesday September 24, 2014 @02:01PM (#8363012)
Interesting, I had the exact same reaction as you. Bought the book (along with Michal Zalewski's Silence on the Wire), got less than a chapter in, and put it down in frustration. I've since wondered if I should go back and give it another chance. Sounds like no?

For what it's worth, I really enjoyed Zalewski's book. He seems like a really smart guy.

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Re:Kevin Mitnick Now Selling Zero-Day Exploits by robin_reala on Wednesday September 24, 2014 @03:22PM (#8363545)
Silence On The Wire is an excellent book: both a good read and also technically informative. I’d highly recommend it.
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Re:Kevin Mitnick Now Selling Zero-Day Exploits by tlianza on Wednesday September 24, 2014 @03:29PM (#8363586)
There's some poetic justice to feeling deceived by a book with that title.
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Re:Kevin Mitnick Now Selling Zero-Day Exploits by CWilliams1013 on Wednesday September 24, 2014 @02:45PM (#8363318)
So you bought a book that's sold as "The world's most infamous hacker offers an insider's view of the low-tech threats to high-tech security"[0] and expected it to be about serious computer-based intrusion?

[0] http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Deception-Controlling-Security...

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Re:Kevin Mitnick Now Selling Zero-Day Exploits by mlvljr on Wednesday September 24, 2014 @01:50PM (#8362929)
The first chapter (the one about random-number generator numbers and slot machines) was almost cool though (the rest was so-so, leaving that very impression you mentioned) -- read it in Russian, in translation, in a book store [and decided not to buy].
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