You know I was ultimately unsatisfied with this book. If you don’t know who Kevin Mitnick is then short story he is probably one of the most well known hacker out there. Since he is so well known then you’d be right in presuming that he is also a graduate of PMITA Federal Prison. He was, at one time, the proud pwner of most all of the major telecommunications companies infrastructure and became a hunted man through the desire of MSM to have some street creds by writing a lot of bullshit about hackers cos we all know hackers are sexy.
I approached this book from the perspective of someone who is technically savvy and looking forward to reading how hackers hack. Instead I sort of got the everyman’s intro to hacking with some truly suspect tales that smelled like teen fantasy to tell you the truth. By doing what he did, try to appeal to the droid book buying public I think Kevin missed the mark by the way. Non-geeks won’t buy this book because they don’t care. Geeks will buy it and then never buy another book by the guy. Kevin, here’s a truth, if you target a book at an audience too dim to even avoid being botted then you aren’t going to hit the mark.
Meh. I won’t even lend this book to my friends as they will probably think I’m a lamer for even buying it. Oh and by the way Kevin, don’t spend a chapter of your new book blatantly trying to sell me your old book. Recycling is for trash not treasure.
