Authors: Mark Frauenfelder.
Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Publication Date: 2005-02-08


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    If you like to tweak, disassemble, re-create, and invent cool new uses for technology, you'll love MAKE our new quarterly publication for the inquisitive do-it-yourselfer. Every issue is packed with projects to help you make the most of all the technology in your life. Everything from home entertainment systems, to laptops, to a host of PDAs is fair game. If there's a way to hack it, tweak it, bend it, or remix it, you will find out about it in MAKE. This isn't another gadget magazine. MAKE focuses on cool things you can do to make technology work the way you want it to. The publication is inspired by our bestselling Hacks series books but with a twist. MAKE is a mook (rhymes with book). We ve combined the excitement, unexpectedness, and visual appeal of a magazine with the permanence and in-depth instructiveness of a how-to book. Whether you're a geek or hacker who delights in creating new uses for technology, or a Saturday afternoon tinkerer who loves to get his hands dirty, you'll keep every issue of MAKE on your bookshelf for years to come. Our premier issue, available in February 2005, includes 220 pages packed with tips and tricks, including:

• how to create a $14 stabilizer for your video camera with readily available household items
• how to use an ordinary kite to take extraordinary professional quality aerial digital photos
• how to get rid of that tangle of wires by creating your own 5-in-1 network cable
• how to decipher the magnetic stripe on your credit card to find out what your credit card company really knows about you and lots more!

Every quarter, MAKE will contain a unique set of innovative ideas and creations for a variety of new technologies, including mobile devices, in-car computers, web services, digital media, wireless and home networking, and computer hardware. Visit MAKE's web site: make.oreilly.com....

Authors: Bernadette Schell. Clemens Martin.
Paperback, 387 pages
Publisher: Wiley Publishing, Inc.
Publication Date: 2006-09-05


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    The comprehensive hacker dictionary for security professionals, businesses, governments, legal professionals, and others dealing with cyberspace

Hackers. Crackers. Phreakers. Black hats. White hats. Cybercrime. Logfiles. Anonymous Digital Cash. ARP Redirect.

Cyberspace has a language all its own. Understanding it is vital if you're concerned about Internet security, national security, or even personal security. As recent events have proven, you don't have to own a computer to be the victim of cybercrime-crackers have accessed information in the records of large, respected organizations, institutions, and even the military.

This is your guide to understanding hacker terminology. It's up to date and comprehensive, with:
* Clear, concise, and accurate definitions of more than 875 hacker terms
* Entries spanning key information-technology security concepts, organizations, case studies, laws, theories, and tools
* Entries covering general terms, legal terms, legal cases, and people
* Suggested further reading for definitions

This unique book provides a chronology of hacker-related developments beginning with the advent of the computer and continuing through current events in what is identified as today's Fear of a Cyber-Apocalypse Era. An appendix entitled "How Do Hackers Break into Computers?" details some of the ways crackers access and steal information.

Knowledge is power. With this dictionary, you're better equipped to be a white hat and guard against cybercrime....

Authors: Cooper.
Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 2002-06-14
Edition: 1

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    Sex and the Internet is the first ever professional book on the fascinating and revolutionary area of internet sexuality. With many disturbing questions raised by sex and the internet, here is a clinician's guide that addresses these concerns by both informing and providing practical and concrete suggestions and directions. Contributions by international compilation of experts in the field of sexuality keeps on course with pertinent and relevant material....

Authors: Eve Edelson.
Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: The Disinformation Company
Publication Date: 2006-09-01


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This book is about liars telling lies with compound interest to other liars. A -struggle is being waged on the Internet between criminals and comedians. On one side are fraudsters who con their victims out of hundreds of millions of dollars each year. The basic tool of the trade is e-mail, and the crime is the infamous "419" scam-a form of fraud whose current masters hail from Nigeria and which gets its name from section 419 of the Nigerian criminal code. It begins with an e-mail from a stranger:

I am soliciting your assistance as to enable my family round up the remains of our life. Following the death of my husband Sani Abacha, former head of state of Nigeria, the new president has turned the country against us . . . I will be grateful if you could receive my last $50 million for safe keeping. I will give you 10% as a commission and to cover any expenses . . .

On the other side of the struggle, pranksters from around the world are writing back to scammers strictly to waste their time. The resulting literary genre is -scambaiting-psychological warfare for clowns. Some anti-scammers go further, breaking into scammers' e-mail accounts to warn off their victims, and helping law enforcement.

This book documents a weird form of cultural exchange made possible by the Internet. It is a hilarious introduction to the "419" scam, with correspondences between scammers and people who love to yank their chains.

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Authors: Susan Snedaker. Daniel Bendell.
Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Syngress
Publication Date: 2004-04-01
Edition: 1

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    Is "System Administrator" Just One of Your Job Titles?

For every Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE) managing a Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition network within the dust-free confines of a "Network Operating Center," there is a non-MCSE admin managing a Windows Small Business Server 2003 network under far less glamorous conditions. Their job is to keep the network up and running no matter what, with very few resources available. "How to Cheat" is written for these unsung heroes; the last line of defense in most small enterprises.

Create an Installation and Recovery Plan for Install, Upgrade, or Migration
Every hour of planning results in a net savings of four hours on the other end. Fixing, re-doing, and troubleshooting will ALWAYS chew up more time.

Secure Your Server
Securing the server includes physical security, configuration security, and software security. It’s always easier to keep a server clean than to clean it up after a disaster.

Demystify Disk Management
If you have trouble processing the differences between Boot, Primary, System and Extended Partitions, you are not alone.

Effectively Manage File Storage
Configure and Troubleshoot Disk Quotas, File Encryption Management, Disk and File Compression, and Shadow Copy.

Painlessly Add and Configure Users and Groups on your Network
User accounts and groups provide the framework for security and organization in the Small Business Server network.

Set Permissions so that your Server is Both Secure and Accessible
Harness the Power of Group Policy, Administrative Templates, Software Setting and Windows Settings to Apply Changes to User, Group and Computer Permissions.

Connect Client Computers to the Network
Everything You Need to Know about IP Addresses, DNS, DHCP, Domain Access and Login.

Answer THE Most Frequently Asked Question: "Why Can’t I Print!"
Printers can be connected either to client computers, servers, or directly to the network; and they can be configure by either Windows or Your Printer Vendor’s Software.

Prepare for the Worst
Bad Things Sometimes Happen to Good Network Administrators. You need to know exactly what do when things go very, very wrong....

Authors: Jim Aspinwall.
Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Publication Date: 2004-10-25


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    Intel-and AMD-powered PCs--which account for more than 90% of all personal computers--are powerful and expandable, and operating systems like Windows and Linux do a great job of running well on this hardware. But to maintain maximum stability and predictability, these operating systems don't push the hardware to its limits. That doesn't mean you can't. PC Hacks shows PC users like you how to get the most out of your hardware and software to make your PC experience more satisfying than ever. You don't need another collection of simple tips and command-clicks; you need PC Hacks, where you'll find proven techniques for enhancing performance and preventing problems with your PC hardware. This step-by-step, hack-by-hack guide, with invaluable tips and tricks throughout, will get you hacking the system board, CPU, BIOS, peripherals and operating system--everything but the unhackable power supply! In PC Hacks, Jim Aspinwall, the Windows Helpdesk columnist and feature editor for CNET.COM and author of three books on PC maintenance, delivers basic to advanced hacks for overclocking CPU and video cards, tweaking RAM timing, selecting the best performing components, and much more. He includes suggestions for reusing an old PC to off-load work from newer systems as well as ways to prevent security hacks. He also offers many tips for avoiding common mistakes--and for getting the system back up and running if something does go wrong. PC Hacks combines of the bestselling Hacks series style with the world's most popular computing hardware. Presented in a clear and direct format and covering both Windows and Linux operating systems, PC Hacks ensure that you'll hack and tweak your way to the best performance possible out of your trusty PC....

Authors: McKenzie Wark.
Hardcover, 208 pages
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication Date: 2004-10-04


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    "

A double is haunting the world--the double of abstraction, the virtual reality of information, programming or poetry, math or music, curves or colorings upon which the fortunes of states and armies, companies and communities now depend. The bold aim of this book is to make manifest the origins, purpose, and interests of the emerging class responsible for making this new world--for producing the new concepts, new perceptions, and new sensations out of the stuff of raw data.

A Hacker Manifesto deftly defines the fraught territory between the ever more strident demands by drug and media companies for protection of their patents and copyrights and the pervasive popular culture of file sharing and pirating. This vexed ground, the realm of so-called ""intellectual property,"" gives rise to a whole new kind of class conflict, one that pits the creators of information--the hacker class of researchers and authors, artists and biologists, chemists and musicians, philosophers and programmers--against a possessing class who would monopolize what the hacker produces.

Drawing in equal measure on Guy Debord and Gilles Deleuze, A Hacker Manifesto offers a systematic restatement of Marxist thought for the age of cyberspace and globalization. In the widespread revolt against commodified information, McKenzie Wark sees a utopian promise, beyond the property form, and a new progressive class, the hacker class, who voice a shared interest in a new information commons.

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Authors: Steve H. Graham.
Paperback, 254 pages
Publisher: Citadel
Publication Date: 2007-03-01


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    Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 18:38:09 0000 (GMT)

To: honbarrsedd4za@yahoo.co.in
PROPOSAL FOR URGENT ASSISTANCE
Dear Sir: I must solicit your confidence in this transaction. I am a high placed official with the Department of Finance Affairs in Lagos, Nigeria. I and two other colleagues are in need of a silent foreign partner whose bank account we can use to transfer the sum of $18,000,000. This are monies left by a barrister who died tragically in a plane crash last year...

Sound familiar? Congratulations. You have been selected to become a mugu, an expression African con artists use to describe the targets of their e-mail scams. But they drew a bead on the wrong guy when they started spamming Steve H. Graham. Like many Internet users, Graham eventually got tired of receiving mugu mail and decided to fire back at his wannabe swindlers.

Armed with a scathing sense of humor, Graham quickly turned the tables on his tormenters--with side-splittingly hilarious results. Whether he's referring to his fictional lawyer Biff Wellington, complaining about the injury he received while milking a lactating sloth, or offering the Preparation H helpline as his phone number, Graham--using aliases such as Wile E. Coyote, Barney Rubble, and Herman Munster--offers proof that spamming the spammers is the best revenge.

Steve H. Graham is a retired attorney. Since childhood, he has been fighting for truth, justice, and free movie passes. For each copy sold of this book, he will donate 100 percent of the proceeds to himself. He is also the author of the cookbook Eat What You Want and Die Like a Man. He lives in Miami....

Authors: Joe Grand. Ryan Russell. Kevin Mitnick (Editor).
Paperback, 576 pages
Publisher: Syngress Publishing
Publication Date: 2004-01-01
Edition: 1st

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    "If I had this book 10 years ago, the FBI would never have found me!" -- Kevin Mitnick This book has something for everyone---from the beginner hobbyist with no electronics or coding experience to the self-proclaimed "gadget geek." Take an ordinary piece of equipment and turn it into a personal work of art. Build upon an existing idea to create something better. Have fun while voiding your warranty! Some of the hardware hacks in this book include:

* Don't toss your iPod away when the battery dies! Don't pay Apple the $99 to replace it! Install a new iPod battery yourself without Apple's "help".

* An Apple a day! Modify a standard Apple USB Mouse into a glowing UFO Mouse or build a FireWire terabyte hard drive and custom case.

* Have you played Atari today? Create an arcade-style Atari 5200 paddle controller for your favorite retro videogames or transform the Atari 2600 joystick into one that can be used by left-handed players.

* Modern game systems, too! Hack your PlayStation 2 to boot code from the memory card or modify your PlayStation 2 for homebrew game development.

* Videophiles unite! Design, build, and configure your own Windows- or Linux-based Home Theater PC.

* Ride the airwaves! Modify a wireless PCMCIA NIC to include an external antenna connector or load Linux onto your Access Point.

* Stick it to The Man! Remove the proprietary barcode encoding from your CueCat and turn it into a regular barcode reader.

* Hack your Palm! Upgrade the available RAM on your Palm m505 from 8MB to 16MB....

Authors: Ragnar Benson.
Paperback, 152 pages
Publisher: Paladin Press
Publication Date: 1996-09


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    Forget about using the old "dead-baby's birth-certificate" ruse to get new ID. Everyone's on to that trick. What you need is the know-how to make your own documents on a home computer. And by following the simple instructions in here, you can....