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One popular aspect of the book is the apparently salacious printouts of actual hacking attempts (although confidential details, such as passwords, are blacked out). [citation needed] The first edition, the version most easily available for download, was published in 1985.
It challenges the principle of freedom of information, as it states that some types of information are too dangerous, as people could either be harmed by it or use it to harm others. [2] This is sometimes why information is classified based on its sensitivity. One example would be instructions for creating a thermonuclear weapon. [2]
Humans generally do poorly at generating random quantities. Magicians, professional gamblers and con artists depend on the predictability of human behavior. In World War II German code clerks were instructed to select three letters at random to be the initial rotor setting for each Enigma machine message. Instead some chose predictable values ...
The production and distribution of the Hacker Bible was discontinued by 1990. Since 1999, the CCC has offered a scanned and full-text version online (in German) with further materials such as texts from Peter Glaser, a documentation on Karl Koch and works from Tron from the Chaos-CD.
A security hacker or security researcher is someone who explores methods for breaching defenses and exploiting weaknesses in a computer system or network. [1] Hackers may be motivated by a multitude of reasons, such as profit, protest, information gathering, [2] challenge, recreation, [3] or evaluation of a system weaknesses to assist in formulating defenses against potential hackers.
Hacking back is a technique to counter cybercrime by hacking the computing devices of the attacker.. The effectiveness [1] [2] [3] and ethics of hacking back are disputed. [4]It is also very disputed if it is legal or not, however both participating parties can still be prosecuted for their crimes.
In this book, he suggested the classification of computer criminals based on factors that provide opportunities to commit cybercrime such as affordability, acceptable risk, attractiveness, availability, and anonymity. [11] He also identified internal and external factors that drive people into hacking.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "Books about computer hacking" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 ...