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Title: Steal This Computer Book 3: What They Won't Tell You About the Internet Author(s): Wallace Wang Pages: 384 Publisher: No Starch Press Publication date: 2003 Language: Format: PDF + CHM ISBN-10: 1593270003 ISBN-13: Description: Abbie Hoffman if he were alive today would be impressed with the job Wallace has done writing this book about the "dark underside" of the Internet, not to mention coining the title of Abbie's now famous tome "Steal This Book." From hate groups on the net to censored web sites to ways to get around "filtering software" to ways to protect yourself and your computer from getting viruses, this book contains a wealth of information you probably won't find in other computer books.
The book is divided into five main parts and several appendices. Part 1 titled "Information Overload" deals with subjects like finding information by using search engines, methods of finding "alternative sources of news," getting past Internet filters and parental control software, online activism, and hate groups. Part 2 discusses "Internet Threats," like viruses, and Internet con games. Part 3 describes how to "break in and enter a computer (and it's fairly easy to do) and Part 4 discusses how to keep people from breaking in to your computer (nice of Wallace to do that I'd say), as well as a great chapter called "Computing on a Shoestring (finding cheap computers and software for it). Part 5 also discusses ways to protect your computer (firewalls, ways to delete sensitive data beyond recovery) and the book's first Appendix describes software that can be used for all of these various computer tasks. Another appendix describes a "hacker's gallery of rogue tools" for "hacking" or "cracking other folks' computers.
Wang takes great pains to say that none of these tools or information should be used to do anything illegal, however I suspect a number of people will anyway. Still, I feel it's better to be prepared for that possibility than to do nothing when it comes to using your computer or being on the Internet.
I found this book to be a valuable resource, one that I intend to refer to whenever a privacy or "hacker issue" comes up for me.
# Paperback: 384 pages
# Publisher: No Starch Press; 3 edition (May 2003)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1593270003
# ISBN-13: 978-1593270001
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