RE: [Full-disclosure] Who wrote Maximum Security?

["Michael L Benjamin" <mike.benjamin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.


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[mailto:full-disclosure-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joshua Russel
Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2005 11:36 AM
To: Pablo Fernandez
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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 <pablo.fernav@xxxxxxxxx> 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
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