Hacking Books

This book made me understsnd sooo much about hacking!! i would recomend it to any begging hacker....

The possibilities of what can be found to be true or become true have opened up with our advance in technology. There are things that we can make true today that have never been true before. (Idea from Hacking interpreting Foucault). This might also be called Darwinizing Ontology with reference to "Darwinizing Culture: The Status of Memetics As a Science" - by Robert Aunger. So this is still one more the evolution narrative is being used to convert our previous understanding.

The Internet Survival Guide Series "Protecting Your Financial Information" is a must-have reference book for anyone seriously interested in understanding how to protect their financial assets. The author, James Christiansen, presents this critically important material in a well organized and easy-to-read style for all ages. Even our children can be affected by scammers when they are out on the internet. With the increasing use of on-line shopping and banking and the threat of identity theft, the author gives a tremendous amount of practical information that can be used to avoid becoming a victim to hackers and cyber-thieves. I did a quick read through the book once, then read it again to start applying the principles in this book. Just the valuable information about setting up strong passwords, passphrases and encryption is worth buying the book. I'm really impressed with this book and also have it's other two companions in the series called "Protecting Your Family" and "Protecting Your Home Computer." These books represent an arsenal and defense that the average computer user can put into action. I keep them right next to my computer. I highly recommend this book!!

OK, of course I say it's a nice collection; I'm the author. :) This combination book/DVD is a selection of our favorite hacks from Hardware Hacking: Have Fun While Voiding Your Warranty and Game Console Hacking. If you're curious about modifying hardware and electronic products to do things they weren't intended to do, then this collection is for you. It's a great way to get involved in the hobby without breaking the bank. Cheaper than either of the previously mentioned larger books, only 4 chapters are printed (Tools of the Warranty-Voiding Trade, Electrical Engineering Basics, Operating Systems Overview, and Coding 101) The actual hacks (the rest of the material) is on the included DVD in PDF and HTML format with high-resolution images (most of them in color, as opposed to the black and white of the previous books). Some of the hacks include: Declawing your Cuecat, hacking the Playstation 2, hacking the iPod, modifications for the classic/retro Atari 2600, 5200, 7800, and 8-bit systems, hacking the Xbox, and how to build your own DVR/Home Theater PC. Don't be afraid to modify or hack your hardware - have fun voiding your warranty!

This is a quite interesting book about the conundrums of nineteenth-century psychiatry in dealing with mentally ill runaways in continental Europe (France and Germany). Hacking's study examines issues of travel in order to address the history of psychiatry in different national contexts.

More specifically, Hacking is interested in understanding how mental diseases emerge, become epidemic, and then disappear (not as in individual cases, but as a social phenomenon). He chooses to study the case of "fugue" (or "dromomania"), an old medical category that refers to those suffering from an uncontrollable compulsion to travel (often with amnesia, migraines and cleptomania).

Hacking proposes the notion of "ecological niche", in order to explain why dromomania is a medical phenomenon that arose and disappeared, mostly in France and Germany, while remaining totally absent in Britain and USA. (Not for the reasons that the reader may be thinking of!).

As a hint, Hacking never claims that psychiatrists create or invent diseases, but he suggests that they contribute to the rise of mental illness through the process of nominalism (naming and circumscribing symptoms as "things"). By studying the specific case of nineteenth-century fugue, Hacking demonstrates how medical taxonomies are transformed, not due to "scientific progress" but rather because of political feuds within medicine and large social processes.

This fascinating book stems from a series of lectures that Hacking delivered in the late 1990s. Its prose is very clear and pleasurable. Highly recommended!

For an updated account on contemporary travel madness, "Global Nomads" by Anthony D'Andrea is a must-read on how mobile practices in exotic lands gradually affect and transform the self.

Rewriting the Soul is a fascinating book, treating with eminent erudition, logic, and brevity its subtopics, multiple personality disorder and child abuse, and its main topic, how from the late 19th century the psychological sciences of memory came to be surrogates for the spiritual and spiritualistic concepts of the soul.

The author is a philosopher with a special interest in the history of psychiatry.

I recommend this book highly, especially to all the psychology undergraduate majors from the 1960's who did not continue into graduate school, and who've seen so often rendered pop-simple or inaccessible the subjects they enjoyed so much in college. And I hope to add detail to this review in the future.

  One of the major strengths of the book is the author's discussion of how some of the more popular software programs available today are designed to block problem Websites and their indecent material. Although these programs do not assure 100% successful filtering, the author does rate them and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of each one. The author correctly states that human oversight is always superior to filtering software. Therefore, parents, teachers, and others should always exercise adequate control over the child use of the Internet and the online services.

     Another strength I found fascinating was the description of clever programming and marketing ploys used to gain the attention of those online. As the author points out, some people will use extremely clever means to ensnare children and adults alike. To his credit the author cites examples of other threats apart from sexually explicit material. He writes of twelve children who followed easy-to-follow instructions found on the Internet on how to build homemade grenades. A number of these children were badly hurt when their grenades exploded. Other children online have formed close intimate ties with others and have actually left home to meet their newly found "friends".

     The author rounds out the book by offering an adequate glossary of terms, a list of safe Websites for kids, instructions for surfing the Internet, setting up and operating parental control software, and a very helpful guide to detect the presence of suggestive material. The book is footnoted to provide readers with documented sources. Readers should visit the Kidshield Website for updated and additional information.

     The incidents cited in the book are reason enough to be on guard for the welfare of children today. Sadly, at present we cannot rely upon local, state, and federal governments to protect children from the exposure of negative influences that exist on the Internet, whatever they may be. We should take immediate a! ction to make such threats much less of a problem and burden. This book offers a thoughtful response to a problem every parent, teacher, and other concerned persons in this technological era should become familiar with. Get a firm grip on this problem before this problem gets a firm grip on your kids!

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All biographies of Smith Wigglesworth, a man of God, where the author had a first hand relationship with Wigglesworth have some insight of Wigglesworth that the others don't. This biography by Hacking contains a lot of insight the others don't. Mr. Hacking inlcudes notes from a week of services that Wigglesworth held in Mr. Hacking's church. These notes contain spiritual insights I have not found in any other biography or books of his sermons. Actually, in a personal letter to Mr. Hacking from Smith Wigglesworth, Wigglesworth praises him for the notes.

It has been over ten years since the Internet became more than a means of sharing ideas between college professors of science. Early developers of the Internet attempted to control the emerging market for communication and information by limiting access to other providers and to limit direct access to the Internet itself. Today the Internet is a democratic free for all with few rules and little censorship. Anyone with access to the Internet desiring information or requiring communication turns first to the Internet. Most of what has been written to this point in time focuses on the technical aspects of the Internet. Most jokes deal with the computer nerd communicating with a "normal" human being. However, the momentum is shifting and significant research, business and communication now occurs using the Internet. This communication involves every aspect of human virtue and vice. "The Social Net," edited by Yair Amichai-Hamburger, is one of the first books to address the impact of the Internet on social behavior. It is necessary reading for computer professionals desiring to remain on the cutting edge of effectiveness in presenting information and enhancing communication using the Internet. It is just as important for the rest of us who just want to be aware of the impact that the Internet is having on our communities, our families and us.