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Offline Missing Shade of Blue

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"Ghost in the Wires" by Kevin Mitnick
« on: Oct 15, 2011, 05:26:52 PM »
Okay, I'm not going to review this book until I'm finished, but I didn't see a thread about this book.  I LOVE IT!  He's a really great storyteller about his hacker hijinks.

I'm breezing through it on my morning and evening bus rides, reading it on my iPad 2.  If I were to sit down and read it at home, I'd probably stay up all night and finish it, it's that much fun.

I have to admit, I'm intrigued by hacking, even though I don't know the first thing about how to write a computer program beyond using Mathematica and Fortran 77 to solve math and physics problems and graph functions and it's been 13 years since I've had to do that.

The best part about it so far is how he was using a printer to print out instead of a monitor, lol.  Oh those were the days.
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Re: "Ghost in the Wires" by Kevin Mitnick
« Reply #1 on: Oct 19, 2011, 10:59:54 AM »
You convinced me. I just downloaded it.
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Re: "Ghost in the Wires" by Kevin Mitnick
« Reply #2 on: Oct 26, 2011, 10:39:09 AM »
great book, full of lulz.

about half the lulz you have with kevin on something hes done to some one/people. half the lulz are just at the technology or the lack of password protections and security in the 70s-90s
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Re: "Ghost in the Wires" by Kevin Mitnick
« Reply #3 on: Oct 26, 2011, 11:52:06 AM »
I just picked this up as well.  It's in the queue after "Bad Science".
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Re: "Ghost in the Wires" by Kevin Mitnick
« Reply #4 on: Dec 23, 2011, 10:59:02 AM »
Finished it. Good book. Interesting guy, that Mitnick. Movie worthy.
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