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Proxies
Stealing the Network: How to Own a Shadow (Stealing the Network) (Stealing the Network)
Published in Paperback by Syngress (2007-01-26)
Authors: Johnny Long, Tim Mullen, and Ryan Russell
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Worst book in the series
Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 2008-07-24
Remember "stealing the network, how to own the box" how groundbreaking and fun it was to read, an intesely technical, multifaceted thriller. Remember reading the next two books, how to own an identity and how to own a continent, glued to the pages as the authors seemlessly twisted what started off as an unorganised collection of stories in the first book into a over arching plot in the next two.

Now forget all that because the excellent story format of the first three books has been dumped. The whole book now is written by just three guys and they're not very good writers. Knuth the shadowy arch villian escapes the clutches of the NSA only set up seedy poker website and spend his time sampling the local prostitutes. We meet a new character pawn, who is a naieve ninja(literally) hacker extrodinaire, the only way he could be more awesome would be if he was a pirate as well as a ninja. How someone could be such an accomplished hacker and so freaking naieve I have no idea, you'd think the person who spends his whole day breaking into other peoples computers would be a little bit more paranoid about his interpersonal interactions instead of just trusting every person who tries to exploit him.

To top it all off, nothing happens in this book, we introduce 3 new characters and that is it. Nothing else of consequence.

I can only assume the authors got greedy and decided that they didn't want to cut anyone else in on this book so they could take all the money for themselves. They also seems to have decided that 1 book wouldn't give them enough money so they artificially elongated it and turn it into 2 books, hey maybe it's a triology who knows, this could be the next Star Wars, they can all be George Lucas.

Basically if you loved the other 3 books steer clear of this one, it stinks.

The SQL Injection Adventures of Pawn
Helpful Votes: 1 out of 3 total.
Review Date: 2007-06-14
Did you enjoy the previous three Stealing the Network books? Are you looking for more? Then move along now, nothing to see here.
The prior books were interesting because they introduced the reader to new ideas or new angles on old ideas, then moved on without belaboring them. If you wanted more details, there were often URLs provided. The last two tied the stories together with the intriguing Knuth character. But the folks running the project chose to switch to a new format, with fewer characters and stories, not to mention fewer authors, and fewer ways to split the profits.
After three books with the same (proven) formula, it's understandable the authors would want to try something new. Alas, it's a disaster.

Welcome to "How to Own a Shadow," aka "The SQL Injection Adventures of Pawn." Pawn is one of the new characters in this volume, and is the first StN character I hoped would get shot to death by the cops in a mini-mall parking lot. Yes, he's that irritating. Particularly after reading 40 pages about his childhood as a high-functioning autistic (or something like that), and around 100 pages of him performing SQL injection attacks. Most of which is totally unrelated to Knuth. Note to the authors: SQL injection is interesting, but if you want to write a book about it, just write a book about it. I even gave you a title, what more do you want? You can even recycle much of this book, like you recycled part of the last one here.

Oh, you noticed the real subtitle of the book, "The Chase for Knuth." First, one chases _after_ fugitives, and hunts or searches _for_ them. Not that it matters, because there's not much chasing or hunting going on in this book. There isn't much Knuth, either. We see him in the first hundred pages, which is mostly about his son analyzing poker software. That's the last we see of either of them. Because, really, this is "The Biography of Pawn." We do get 50 pages of Knuth at the end of the book, but don't get excited: it's all from the last book, added as obvious filler.

Speaking of filler, there's a 17 page advertorial thrown in for BiDiBLAH, which is commercial software by SensePost. Oddly enough, they're listed as technical advisors for the book. I'm sure it's a fine app, but the authors have forgotten about Knuth again, since it has nothing to do with the story. If it had been relevant, it might have been a less obnoxious addition.

Not everything is bad. There's a brief bit about RFID, which of course turns into how to use RFID for SQL attacks. We get to meet Knuth's supposedly dead wife, and a charming shrew she is. All in all, though, this book isn't worth reading unless you're a truly devoted fan of the series, or SQL. I'm still a fan of the previous books, and I hope the authors can recapture what made them so intriguing for their next book. I won't be buying that one until I'm sure it's not Book Two of the Pawn Saga, however.

Author "review"
Helpful Votes: 1 out of 3 total.
Review Date: 2007-04-12
Let me first say that I am one of the authors on this book. I don't think authors can objectively review their own work in a forum such as this, so I won't. This won't stop me from rating it five stars to help reinforce the law of averages. ;-)

I will, however, address a few reviews posted here. First and foremost, I am a huge fan of the Stealing series, and the authors that worked on each of the three previous books. But based on customer reviews and our own feelings on the matter, the authors unanimously agreed that boosting the story value of the book was a priority. After all, even security geeks deserve a good plot and decent characters if they take the time to read technical fiction. Books of this genre should also teach. By all fair reviews, this book does both. If you're interested in straight fiction, or straight tech, you'll find this book to only be half-good. If you're willing to be entertained, and are looking to learn something cool about hackers and how they operate, this is the book for you. And there I go, drifting into a review.

So let me address one other complaint: the lack of a "real" ending. Well, that's our fault. There's more to the series, and we know how it's going to end, but we adamantly refused to slip another deadline, so the book went to print with a cliffhanger ending. Now we're not out to sell more books or make your life miserable by leaving you hanging, but this book had to either wrap up where it did, or it would have been scrapped by the publisher, who had no real choice in the matter. As authors, we missed our deadlines, but we did it in order to improve the final product. I'm personally proud of the end result, and the reviews show that we have good reason to be proud.

So to long-time Stealing readers, this book is different because we grew in our craft, and our EXTREMELY capable story editor (Scott Pinzon) held us to the standard of mainstream fiction. Will we make the New York Times best-seller list because of our efforts? No. But this book isn't for those readers. It's for those in and around technology that have read one to many straight technical books.

So we would love to hear what you think. Post a review if you'd like, or if you just want to chat about the book, head over to the "book talk" section of my web site's forums (you know where to find it- Google is your friend). I'd love to hear from you.

j0hnny

One of the better installments when it comes to plot and pacing...
Helpful Votes: 1 out of 2 total.
Review Date: 2007-04-05
It's nice when recreational reading overlaps with technical material, and the Stealing The Network series qualifies for that designation. The latest installment is Stealing the Network: How to Own a Shadow - The Chase For Knuth by Johnny Long, Timothy Mullen, Ryan Russell, and Scott Pinzon, and it's an enjoyable read that is heavy on the technical how-to while maintaining a decent plotline.

There's basically two story-lines here... The first involves Robert Knoll Jr. and his father, and is a continuation from the last book. All the police surveillance and investigations are taking a toll on Junior's life, so he decides to act on his father's cryptic message to head down to Mexico with nothing much more than the clothes on his back (and a large amount of cash). He is contacted by people who work for his father, and is taken down to Costa Rica where Senior runs an on-line poker site. Everything that Junior wants is provided (top of the line, too), and he starts doing some programming and network intel for his father. But he really doesn't have a clue as to what Senior is really up to...

The second story-line involves an autistic kid by the name of Paul Wilson. As he grows up, he starts gaining an interest in computer hacking and solving puzzles involving gaining access to various network sites. He's befriended by an on-line entity known as Rafa who is amazed at how Paul can pick up concepts almost immediately. It helps that he has a photographic memory and is wired such that these types of problems engage him. Rafa starts paying him for "research assignments", and Paul is thinking that he's actually doing legit security work. That, coupled with his intense interest in the martial arts, pretty much absorbs all his time. But he starts to understand a bit of what's really going on when he starts to hack a mysterious local business in order to help out a woman in his dojo. She has an ulterior motive for wanting to use his phenomenal hacking skills, but it may get them both arrested or killed.

From a plot pacing standpoint, I was pleasantly surprised. The other books tended to be a bit more "vignette" in nature, so the overall story suffered. At least here, the plot and technology actually supported each other. Again, it's not New York Times best-seller action-adventure, but it works for this type of approach. Paul seemed to be a bit over-the-top in his skills, but that element was supported by his autism. It stretched credibility at times, but not so much that you started to laugh (or at least I didn't). My biggest disappointment is that there was no plot resolution to either story-line, so it's a given that you'll need to read the next one to see how it turns out. The plotlines are converging, and the next book *should* be pretty good. Still, I would have liked a bit more payoff at the end.

Regardless, this is an interesting book about hacking techniques (complete with code) all wrapped up in an action/adventure plot. I'll be interested to see how they merge the story and carry it on in the next installment...

Entertaining way to learn
Helpful Votes: 1 out of 2 total.
Review Date: 2007-04-04
This book was excellent for someone interested in technology but has a hard time reading dull technical books. I have been interested in digital security for a while, but until recently hadn't played around with SQL injections. I was interested in learning more about them and pleased to see that this book offered an excellent primer on SQL injections in the form of a story, which held my interest. In addition there was a cool primer on RFID hacking which I really enjoyed. The supporting story was intriguing and kept me reading to find out what happened next.

There was a cliffhanger ending, and now I'm really looking forward to the next one.

Proxies
Proxies
Published in Hardcover by Tor Books (1998-09)
Author: Laura J. Mixon
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Wonderfully Refreshing Science Fiction
Helpful Votes: 1 out of 1 total.
Review Date: 2008-09-10
The ideas presented in this book are interesting and engaging; it's the first science fiction book I've read in a while that didn't feel like a transcribed version of a cheesy space action movie. The focus is not on needless action or fancy gadgets, but rather how society is transformed by technology.

The setup is as follows: two key technologies, a device that can transmit data instantaneously and a brain-computer interface combine to create robots that human beings remotely pilot as if they where in their bodies. The continued advancement of this technology begins to tear basic social fabrics as the line between physical and virtual blurs.

Long And Dull In The Extreme!
Helpful Votes: 1 out of 3 total.
Review Date: 2004-04-11
If you want to read a lengthy and tedious novel, this one is for you. Set in the mid 21st century, it begins with a group that is striving to take over control of the first intersteller probe with their own people, and it continues in it's own muddling way from there for hundreds of pages. There is a device that permits instantaneous communications between points light years apart, and also technology with the ability to allow one to control human-like proxies at various locations away from ones physical location, their consciousness being projected there, sort of like an advanced version of telepresence. I found the plot very flat, not interesting at all really, and much of the writing, it seemed to me, was just filler. A lot of the time, particularly in the first half of the novel, I found it hard to follow which groups were doing what, very confusing. In my spare time I read a lot of science fiction, this novel is one of the poorer ones that I have read, not recommended at all.

Mixed up plot and bad science
Helpful Votes: 1 out of 2 total.
Review Date: 2003-10-20
There is an excellent guide on Amazon.com for writing science fiction. One of the points made in that guide is to *know* the science and not make mistakes. Laura Mixon messes up badly in several places in this book (and I'm not even halfway through yet). For starters, let's look at one of the key "new science effects" in her book, which provides instantaneous communication across interstellar distances. OK, no problem so far, it's a new effect. But she has one character admit that the invention needs to be used near a planet-sized mass, and the object is used on a spaceship. She tries to patch this up with the fact that the spaceship is accelerating to relativistic speeds, and at "anything over 18 percent of light speed, the spaceship will be massive enough for the effect to work". This is utter nonsense. Anybody with a decent grounding in physics knows that the relativistic effects are highly nonlinear, and you have to be going well over 90% of lightspeed for any significant effect to occur.

In another section, one of her "proxy" androids scans an area for "magnetic fields from capacitance sensors". Huh? For one thing, capacitance sensors won't give off a magnetic field, for another, magnetic fields fall off quite rapidly and cannot be sensed from much of a distance without rather complicated sensors. The fact that the book is mid-21st century doesn't remove her obligation to at least describe how the science might work.

These mistakes alone wouldn't merit a 2-star review, but the plot of the book is an utter mess. Sure, you can confuse the reader for the first few pages, if things start to clear up after that. But her use of "proxy jargon" and attempts to rehash events from viewpoints of various proxies really makes no sense at all. And it isn't just proxy jargon, she even has characters using chat slang such as "imho" (In My Humble Opinion" in speech. This is going to confuse a LOT of people. The characters simply don't make up for the plot mess, either, they are utterly 2-dimensional actors, reciting lines to try to help out the story, and not much else.

I normally have no problem suspending disbelief while reading science fiction, but this book just reads like a high school creative writing project, nothing more.

Old Wine in New Bottles
Helpful Votes: 3 out of 3 total.
Review Date: 2000-05-20
But the wine sparkles. Mixon takes a classic pulp-fiction mad scientist plot, adds to it a neat political thriller riff, and some cyberpunkiana, and then tarts it up with some perceptive, sometimes tongue-in-cheek speculation on what the world might look like in the mid 21st century (a MacDonalds on an orbital space station is my favorite), makes sure her characters are sexually and ethnically diverse, and serves up a potent brew indeed.

Carli D'Auber is the intrepid heroine who everybody's after, and not always in their own bodies, either (hence the title); the mad scientist and her team are hideously kinky, while Carli's friends are seriously flaky. The multiple point of view plot will leave you dizzy (I doubt even Mixon could have explained it the day she turned it in to her publisher, let alone today), and grasping at loose ends. But no matter. You'll be entertained all the way.

Proxies is a wonderful example of Modern Cyberpunk!
Helpful Votes: 7 out of 7 total.
Review Date: 1999-11-20
Proxies extends the ideas Mixon presented in her earlier novel, Glass Houses. Both books show characters manipulating robots remotely through a computer interface, but in Proxies, the characters come out of the gutter, the traditional home of cyberpunk, and go into secret back hallways of governmental intrigue. Proxies not only gives a rich, wonderfully detailed depiction of the future, it also includes a great murder mystery and a politcal thriller. Add to that a touch of romance, a bit of multiple-personality dissorder, and the usual cyberpunk street scenes, and you have this fabulous novel. Although parts of this book are somewhat confusing to read because of the way Mixon chooses to represent certain characters' thoughts, the fabulous conclusion is definately worth the effort. I highly recommend this novel and recommend that people who enjoy it try Pat Cadigan's TEA FROM AN EMPTY CUP, Melissa Scott's THE SHAPES OF THEIR HEARTS, or N. Lee Wood's LOOKING FOR THE MAHDI. Together these four texts point the way towards the future of cyberpunk fiction.

Proxies
Disordered Mother or Disordered Diagnosis? Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome
Published in Hardcover by The Analytic Press (1998-10-01)
Authors: David B. Allison and Mark S Roberts
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Poorly substantied tripe
Helpful Votes: 10 out of 17 total.
Review Date: 2001-05-23
I bought this book hoping that is would be a well researched and supported overview of the development of the diagnosis for Munchausen By Proxy Syndrome. Unfortunately, it did not deliver. I wanted backround and research to support it, but none was forthcoming. The authors write mainly from the philsophical point of view and do not bother to examine whether MBPS is a valid diagnosis based on case study or clinical research. Many MBPS mothers endorse this book because they believe that it vidicates them, however, the mere overdiagnosis of a disorder does not prove it's nonexistance. A reader interested in this subject would do better to read Marc Feldman's book "Patient or Pretender" and/or review the joural articles on Medline. Buy a book about Factitious Disorders that has a more substantial foundation than this book does that is founded on research not supposition. This book is a waste for serious MSBP researchers. Pass.

A One-of-a-Kind Effort
Helpful Votes: 13 out of 24 total.
Review Date: 1999-04-23
It is a real shame that Amazon.com has not really rallied behind this book, or at least has not offered a better discount. Munchausen-By-Proxy-Syndrome is yet another of those awful tools that prosecuters have to indict and convict people (women, in this case) without any real justification or evidence. The 'science' behind this "syndrome" is -- not unlike false memory syndrome, et al. -- a throwback to the days of witch hunts and the like. This text is the only one out there to counter the rampant conviction factory of shameless prosecutors and the FBI.

A much-needed, but over-reaching, critique
Helpful Votes: 21 out of 25 total.
Review Date: 2000-03-18
I approach Munchausen by Proxy from a somewhat novel perspective: I have been trained as a developmental and philosophical psychologist, and I currently am the CEO of a child welfare agency. This cross-breeding makes me both sympathetic to the authors' aims and argument (the book reminds me of Ian Hacking's book on multiple personality disorder), *and* sympathetic with those practitioners who have diagnosed MBPS in their work.

One of the premises of this book is that MBPS is rampantly over-identified, and is in fact used as a tool for the continued subjugation of women. I am surprised at this claim, since in my experience social workers, physicians, psychologists, child protection workers, judges, and other professionals display either complete ignorance of the disorder or, if they know what it is, a high degree of denial and reluctance to acknowledge it. This is far from the picture painted by the authors of a Salem-witch-trial frenzy.

The simple fact is that there are people out there who, for various reasons, either invent or exaggerate their children's symptoms OR induce those symptoms. The question is WHY this happens. Sometimes it happens because the parent is seeking material gain. And sometimes it happens because of more complex motives, because in some way the parent is seeking the less tangible rewards of the sick role -- BY PROXY. This latter type of motive is what is involved in MBPS. Notice that there is a wealth of philosophical and sociological questions one could pose here that would also accord with the authors' basic assumptions: What features of modern society might be exerting pressure on mothers to fabricate illness in their children? What does this say about the availability of social supports for women in societies like the US? What pathologies of relationships might be involved here?

I greatly value the kind of analysis presented in this book. There is no question that, especially in the area of psychological disorder, societal forces play a huge role in the construction and identification of pathology. (I highly recommend, in this connection, Arthur Kleinman's book _Social Origins of Distress and Disease_. Nevertheless, I think that it is important to remember that when MBPS is alleged, it is USUALLY alleged by mental health or child welfare professionals who are highly well-intentioned and, above all, careful in their assessments. It is not a matter of judgmental social workers going of half-cocked blaming mothers for their childrens' illnesses. MBPS is a diagnosis that is made only after a lot of hand-wringing and searching for other possibilities.

In my opinion, there is at least as much philosophical interest in the question of what makes so many women fabricate illness in their children as there is in the question of society's interest in creating such a disorder. But this book is a valuable entry in what I hope will be a continuing conversation among philosophers, sociologists, social workers, physicians, and other thinkers.

I would very much like to sign my name to this review, but because of the work that I do and where I do it, I can't. But I'll keep watching these reviews to see if anyone has a comment on what I've said!

Proxies
McSe Test Success: Proxy Server 2 : Exam 70-088 (Mcse Test Success)
Published in Paperback by Sybex (1998-09-10)
Author: David G. Schaer
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Its Great
Helpful Votes: 1 out of 2 total.
Review Date: 1999-02-03
I believe this book was a great asset to me passing the Exam. Thanks Sybex, David Schaer (Author), Mike Greger (Techincal Editor) Great Job!!

Good study guide
Helpful Votes: 2 out of 3 total.
Review Date: 1999-02-03
I think that this is a good study guide. There are a couple of problems with study questions and answers being misnumbered, but they are not, in fact incorrect. An observant reader will quickly notice this and account for it, otherwise the book is great.

Terrible editing/proof reading - skip this one!
Helpful Votes: 3 out of 4 total.
Review Date: 1999-01-12
Sybex usual publishes excellent books. I was dismayed to find this one full of errors in the Q&A sections. While such errors might be acceptable in a 700+ page book on the topic in general, they are *not* acceptable in a book specifically designed to prepare for, and practise the exam.

Folks experienced in Proxy will wonder why Sybex slipped so badly, intermediate users will find it a challenge to spot the errors and correct them, the inexperienced will feel lost, bewildered & frustrated.

Skip this book, wait for the second edition, or use it as a 2nd or 3rd book to expand on another book on the same topic. Don't depend on *this* one for "Test Success".

On the other hand, Sybex has also published their MCSE Proxy Server 2.0 Study Guide, which is excellent.

Proxies
Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome: Misunderstood Child Abuse
Published in Hardcover by Sage Publications, Inc (1997-07-30)
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Sad but TRUE
Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 2008-02-07
hey umm i come from family with this... It is true and very much still around and DEFINATLLY NOT outdated.

Outdated
Helpful Votes: 2 out of 15 total.
Review Date: 2003-07-07
Based on fiction rather than fact. All over the UK convictions are being overturned, in light that Roy Meadows (the creator of MSBP) has been exposed for giving "fanciful tales" in court.

This is not an accepted diagnosis by any medical body...not the AMA or the American Psychiatric Assoc.

Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome: Misunderstood Child Abuse
Helpful Votes: 2 out of 7 total.
Review Date: 2000-06-01
Factual w/ interesting approach.

Proxies
Practical Aspects of Munchausen by Proxy and Munchausen Syndrome Investigation (Practical Aspects of Criminal and Forensic Investigations)
Published in Hardcover by CRC (1998-08-14)
Author: Kathryn Artingstall
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An important work from an acknowledged expert in the field.
Helpful Votes: 16 out of 19 total.
Review Date: 1999-07-03
Detective Artingstall is well-known for her body of writings and her experience in Munchausen syndrome and Munchausen by proxy cases. In this authoritative work, she provides insights and practical assistance missing from most other books on the subject. Legal forms, lists of pertinent questions to ask as cases are examined, and summaries of chapter highlights are among the useful elements of the book. The book is also liberally dotted with case studies, including legal outcomes. Although the copy-editing is not as thorough as I would have liked, the content of the book is outstanding. Detective Artingstall's book will be an often-cited resource for practitioners of multiple disciplines--social work, law enforcement, nursing, medicine, child protection, and more. While factitious disorder and Munchausen syndrome have been long-acknowledged in the professional literature, the type of abuse called Munchausen by proxy has been recognized and studied only within the last 2 decades. Works such as this one--based on a mastery of the literature, a wealth of personal experience, and an abiding desire to uncover the truth (no matter how disturbing)--will be invaluable in irrefutably establishing Munchausen by proxy as a public health and criminal-justice issue that requires our careful attention.

A wonderful law enforcement field guide
Helpful Votes: 3 out of 4 total.
Review Date: 2004-05-24
Obviously the author of the one star review has had some negative experience with regards to the subject matter of this book. To call the information "outdated" is ludicrous in that so little information has been available for so long. Those that have participated in the web of deceit referred to as Munchausen's Syndrome find it difficult to accept the truth and are often on the offensive with anyone that possesses the knowledge of this disorder and its existance. Their anger and resentment is further exacerbated when this information is conveyed in any logical, fact based manner.

Over-priced and Out Dated!
Helpful Votes: 3 out of 10 total.
Review Date: 2003-07-06
This witch-hunt is over. The creator of MSBP (Roy Meadow) has been exposed and discredited for his "fanciful tales" and courts all over the UK are overturning convictions. Courts in the US are recognizing that this is not a diagnosis accepted by any medical establishment.

Child abuse can not be diagnosied by warning signs and attention-seeking behavior can only be diagnosed by a qualified professional once a crime has been established by medical fact.

Proxies
Practical VoIP Security
Published in Paperback by Syngress (2006-03-30)
Authors: Thomas Porter and Jan Kanclirz Jr.
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for begginer, it only explains basic elements in PBX, and basic terms of VoIP with Asterisk
Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 2007-03-08
definitively for beginners and people without experience working with PBX or VoIP

This book give an intruduction to the basics elements in PBX,
and when talking abount VoIP, it just make reference to Asterisk Configurations

and about security, please this book only make reference to some basic of security isues

Practical VoIP Security
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Review Date: 2007-01-11
I found that this book covers all the bases when it comes to the basics of VoIP Security. Provides a great foundation for anyone who needs to learn about VoIP fast.

Proxies
Proxy: Peter Sotos Pornography 1991-2000
Published in Paperback by Creation Books (TC) (2005-09-15)
Author: Peter Sotos
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Disappointing
Helpful Votes: 1 out of 2 total.
Review Date: 2008-04-15
I really wanted to understand Sotos. I do not share in the majority of his philosophies, but that just made me more curious about where this guy is coming from. I still don't know. He's obviously intelligent and at times, articulate, but he doesn't have enough restraint to explain himself. It all just turns into a big rant about child rape/porn and other social taboos.
I wonder if he's really into these deviant acts or if he just gets off on being subversive. He really doesn't make a strong point. He just sounds like someone who had severe childhood trauma and has absolutely no capacity for empathy or compassion. I don't think he's evil or even necessarily dangerous. He just needed more love as a kid and not the kind that includes penetration.

FRESH BLOOD
Helpful Votes: 5 out of 27 total.
Review Date: 2006-01-20
"Peter Sotos cries out the fresh blood of a drug fetus toward the rust brain cell of a chemical=anthropoid." - Kenji Siratori, author Blood Electric

Proxies
MCSE: Proxy Server 2 Study Guide
Published in Hardcover by Sybex Inc (1998-04)
Authors: Erik Rozell, Todd Lammle, and James Chellis
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Too much useless information
Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 2001-04-12
If you are using this as a study guide, go elsewhere. Its close to 600 pages, only about 170-220 should have been used to cover what is on the Proxy Exam. I finally decided to use something besides the Exam Cram books, and do I ever regret it. The author even states at one point, "you might be asking why you need to know this". I agree that knowledge is power but save the extra 400 pages for another book about proxy. It is definately a poor study guide. You get so bored with the mounds of useless info that you are a zombie by the time he gets to the good stuff. s

Good book to use for a study guide!
Helpful Votes: 0 out of 0 total.
Review Date: 2000-05-10
The book was a good book overall. The TCP/IP chapter was a good chapter for review of TCP/IP. I found that the troubleshooting chapter and the Installation chapter were very useful.

Worst Sybex book I've ever encountered
Helpful Votes: 1 out of 2 total.
Review Date: 2001-02-17
I purchased this book based on the reviews.... The book wasnot easy to follow and the author spent more time telling you that thetopics would be covered in a later chapter - Never mind the fact thatthe topics were never thouroughly explained. I feel that this bookwas very diorganzied and did not present the material in such a wayfor individuals to understand it. If you are using just this book tostudy for the exam, I highly reccommend that you use other materialsto supplement this book. END

Not as good as other Sybex
Helpful Votes: 1 out of 1 total.
Review Date: 2000-09-05
This book was long - in part because it covered a lot of NT information that you should know by the time you're taking an elective exam. For this test, I actually perfered the Exam Cram study guide because it clearly defined the three components of Proxy Server and then expanded on all three and how they fit together, where as this book seemed to devote huge chapters to each component leaving the reader to figure out how everything worked together.

Also, some of the sample questions at the end of the chapter were not sample 'exam' questions - they were essay/short answer.

Piece of Cake
Helpful Votes: 3 out of 3 total.
Review Date: 2000-10-29
I like this book. I can't believe how stilly some of the comments up here are. Read this book fast, ignore the slow stuff, take the test the next day. This was the last exam I need for my MSCE. So I'm set till December 2001 - Ya hoo!

If you have half a brain you will pass in your sleep. I never would have though that I could score so high -- 962!

Proxies
MCSE Proxy Server 2 Exam Cram (Exam: 70-088)
Published in Paperback by Coriolis Group Books (1998-05-21)
Authors: David Johnson, Andy Ruth, and Michael J. Stewart
List price: $29.99
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Not complete
Helpful Votes: 0 out of 3 total.
Review Date: 2001-06-01
This book does not contain all the information you need to study for or pass the exam. Worse yet, when you return to your car after failing the exam and try to see if any of the test items that seemed foreign to you are actually in the book, you'll find that the entire index was built only on the practice questions in the book and not on any real content.

Poor
Helpful Votes: 0 out of 3 total.
Review Date: 2000-12-31
I am an MCSE+Internet, CIW, A+, Network+, and I-net+ professional.

I blew the proxy server exam away with a score in the 900s. This book gave me no help, though. (By the way, I had never used IIS before I started studying for the test, let alone take the test.)

It is very poorly organized, horribly written, hard to follow, does not cover the objectives in any way, and the review questions are horrible.

Excellent Book.
Helpful Votes: 1 out of 1 total.
Review Date: 2001-12-27
This is the best Exam Cram books I have ever read. It contains all the information you need to pass the test, and it contains very few errors. I read this book over the course of a week, combined with some hands on at work, and passed the Proxy test with a very high score.

Save Some Time for Yourself, Too.
Helpful Votes: 5 out of 5 total.
Review Date: 2001-01-05
When I scheduled the tests for MCSE. I didn't give enough time for this test, and I had no other choice but using exam cram books which I highly trust. They tend to cover most with a few mistakes. I finished this book within 2 days and passed the test. I read other reviews that this book is to read after TCP/IP and IIS4, but that's not really true. I only had basic knowledge of TCP/IP and IIS, and MS Proxy test doesn't require you to know corelated subject in depth. The book covered enough basics for me to pass the test. Save some time for yourself, too.

MCSE, A+, Network+, i-Net+

Hey people, maybe it�s YOU!
Helpful Votes: 9 out of 10 total.
Review Date: 2001-07-03
The lack of talent and ability among the test takers should not reflect poorly on this book. This Exam Cram, like every other one I have used, worked fabulously. Some people have made the effort to vilify this book for their inability to pass the test. Ultimately I can only assume that these are the people who have lowered the MCSE certification to something less than entry level by flooding the market with MCSEs that require assistance in putting their pants on and assume they deserve six figure salaries.

I had no intention of reviewing this book, since I passed my Proxy test back in the summer of '98, but after reading these absurd reviews I felt compelled to defend the book. Some people have made the effort to defend the book by stating that IIS is something that should be taken/mastered first. What a crock. I've never taken an IIS test and I never will. I couldn't possibly care less about being a web master, or web server baby sitter. I'm a network engineer, and using a proxy server to manage traffic flows is part of what I do. If you don't understand TCP/IP, don't bother. If you are naïve enough to assume that the world begins and ends with Microsoft Windows NT, don't bother. Take another elective.

I took the Proxy test to complete my MCSE because I thought it would be an extremely easy test, and all I would need to pass is the Exam Cram and Exam Prep books, with about a week of study time, and boy was I right. I had used MS Proxy 1.0 at a previous job, but had never touched Proxy 2, and wouldn't any time soon. With no experience with the software (which is to say that I never saw MS Proxy 2.0, ever.) and no practice test software to fall back on I used nothing but the Exam Cram and Exam Prep books and walked in and blew away the test. This is one of the BEST Exam Cram books I've ever used, and to be frank it wasn't a big deal since the MS Proxy Server 2.0 test is far and away the easiest certification test I've ever taken, to include the Citrix CCA exams and the CompTIA Network+. If you used this book and didn't pass the test, odds are that the book wasn't the problem and you should consider a new career field in the housekeeping or fast food preparation industries.

Exam Cram rocked, as usual.


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