(Part 2) Reddit mentions: The best internet & social media books

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Kick ass man. It's possible that I know you. I used to call a bunch of those all over the world.

I will say the pure joy of figuring out that I could still blue box in the early 1990s (and for almost another 10+ years after that) was fantastic. I used programs on my Amiga 500 to do it. The switches were already replaced with OOB-signalling locally and in the US, but other countries still used the older in-band stuff. It was awesome calling BBS's all over the world. While I was on the internet at that point, the phone system was still a massive infrastructure that was so fun to play with.

Highly recommend this: https://www.amazon.com/Exploding-Phone-Phil-Lapsley/dp/0802122280/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1522161530&sr=8-1&keywords=exploding+the+phone

Unfortunately, most of the university programs lag significantly behind industry. I've interviewed candidates with graduate degrees in cybersecurity that were not aware of most modern techniques used to find persistent adversaries. The good things those programs provide is a broad coverage of information security as a whole.

I saw you mention "finding the vulnerabilities before the bad guys do". Unfortunately, in the real world the code is either unpublished and you're a software security consultant, analyst, or tester, or it is published and you're fixing a hole that the adversary has already discovered. If your interest is in the software security side, I would recommend two books above all others.

The 24 Deadly Sins of Software Security: https://www.amazon.com/Deadly-Sins-Software-Security-Programming/dp/0071626751?_encoding=UTF8&%2AVersion%2A=1&%2Aentries%2A=0

Writing Secure Code: https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Secure-Code-Strategies-Applications/dp/0735617228/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1499038741&sr=1-1&keywords=writing+secure+code

That said, there is also a lot of work in the systems engineering side of the house - along the lines of credential theft and secure enterprise design. If you think this might be interesting to you, I would recommend reading papers such as these:

Microsoft Pass the Hash Whitepaper: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36036

Think Like a Hacker (shameless plug for my book): https://www.amazon.com/Think-Like-Hacker-Sysadmins-Cybersecurity/dp/0692865217/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1499038880&sr=8-1-spell

Cybersecurity is typically broken into various subfields, such as reverse engineering, forensics, threat intelligence, and the like - each with its own set of tools and skills. Ultimately, I would recommend attending a decent hacking conference such as DEFCON, DerbyCon, ShmooCon, or the like to get familiar with the field.

I don't have anything like that to recommend but if you are interested in more reading (especially non-fiction) take a look at the ones below.

Red Wheelbarrow Journal

I also really enjoyed the following:

The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency

Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous

Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground

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From there, I went on to various sysadmin books (non-fiction) and a few journal articles.

I am not an expert writer. A book which will give you ideas is Microstyle. How to fit more information into smaller sentences. This is important for text game.

When you are writing sentences, always edit afterwards. Remove unnessary words, and experiment with changing the order of the words.

If you are writing to convince. Create an emotion, usually fear is the best one, but it has to be done subtly. Then show a solution to the problem you have created.

Examine good advertisements. If you see the same advertisement headline repeatedly appearing in your gmail, that means the advertisement must be working. Disect the advertisement.

Starbucks usually has great propaganda. A pamphlet about how they built a kindergarden in some third world country. They don't mention they have spent far more printing up propaganda then they donated in the first place. Examine their sentence structure, how they laid out the photos etc.

I didn't learn this until much later in life. People decide to purchase products based on emotion, and then use logic afterwards to justify thier decision. But it is never to late to learn

www.amazon.com/Microstyle-The-Art-Writing-Little/dp/039334181X

Yes.

Hacking Exposed

Shellcoders Handbook

Reverse Engineering

Malware Analyst's Cookbook

Gray Hat Python

Gray Hat Hacking Second Edition

Writing Security Tools & Exploits

Sockets, Shellcode, Porting and Coding: Reverese Engineering Exploits and Tool Coding for Security Professionals

Professional Penetration Testing

These are definitely some books you could start with. Once you've gone through those, you'll know more then a lot of them out there :)

There's these reddit threads on r/netsec:
http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/d3hua/how_to_get_started_in_netsec/
http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/ekyjw/interested_in_learning_about_network_security/

http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/es4si/what_are_some_good_netsec_books_out_there/
http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/g6r71/getting_started_in_network_security_a_list_of/

There's also loads of blogs and websites around, if you go hunting or look at some of these netsec threads, you'll find loads more material.

Tom Standage does a great job writing books which are thematically ordered, meaning he goes through history focusing on certain cultural phenomonam which influenced the time. His History of thr World in 6 Glasses" book is a great one. I'm currently reading his one on the first 2000 years of social media called Writing on the Wall.

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Links! - 6 Glasses

Social Media

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> If not then even if he had voted for it he does not have the capability to make it happen so why vote for him?

"An MP won't accomplish anything anyway" is an argument against representative democracy as a whole. Interestingly, we still have it.

> If you don't trust this guy that he is going to be honest about how and why he is voting then why vote for him in the first place.

Then we could scrap the police and the judiciary for the same reasons. Why do we keep checking on people if we trust them, and if we don't trust them why don't we lock them up just to be sure? And why do people get hired for jobs who get later fired for incompetence? You shouldn't have hired them in the first place, right? Well, I'm not sure that's how it works in the real world...

> You have like an excel sheet you fill in to track how your representative are doing?

"An Excel sheet?" Why would you use something so inadequate? Do we live in the 19th century or what? There's a much larger picture there...

>you're really wondering how not-so-subtly dropping the fact that you can galavant abroad for three months, apparently in 'real' cities, isn't a humble brag?

A humble brag is by definition subtle.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/humblebrag

Lit: "An ostensibly self-deprecating statement made to show off. [from 2010]"

As in:


Humblebrag: The Art of False Modesty

And in this guide here:

https://www.inc.com/brian-hart/how-to-master-art-of-humble-brag.html

So please, tell me again how I was humble bragging?

>Sorry, is the correct term 'weird flex' now?

So, you're just mad at me saying I went abroad that's it. You think anyone stating what they've done matter-of-factly that you're personally jealous of makes it a brag. Admit it.

>so as to further win this precious argument.

Funny, you started it. And you are continuing it. Shall we continue my dear? Or are you giving up? Are you admitting therefore that you started the pissmatch now with your comment about humblebragging?

STFU, parents would be great since I don't get to read 'silly', just-for-fun books often.

Thanks for the contest pecksniffian!

The Guy Fawkes masks started not long after V for Vendetta (2005) which coincidentally is around the scientology thing.

If you are interested in the history of anonymous, this is a good book about it.

And it is just not true that interest ever dropped. There were constant stories about them in the mainstream media. Some bigger than others but there has never been a time in the last 30 years that "Scientology wasn't really something people cared about. It was a silly religion made by a sci-fi writer so movie stars could feel smart."

Stories about Scientology sell magazines so they have never really gone away.

The best advanced book on Bitcoin is Andreas Antonopoulos' Mastering Bitcoin.

And if I may, you could consider my book Bitcoin Basics:101 Questions and Answers for a more general overview of Bitcoin.

There's actually a Bioinformatics for Dummies, and it's a pretty good and inexpensive introduction.

Here's a quick primer for the chemistry of baking.

For a lot more (and a generally fun read), I can recommend this book.

> bitcoin will not prevent the government from bailing out banks, or any enterprise that "is too big to fail"

The ability of governments to bail out institutions with huge sums of cash will be greatly restrained when their state currencies fail and they can no longer print money at will.

I do agree with you that Bitcoin does not need to mean an end to third-party banking, lending or FR, nor do I believe that it should, but you don't seem to appreciate that Satoshi did express deep political motivations for developing Bitcoin.

I would recommend The Book of Satoshi for among other things a good primer on Satoshi's political leanings.

Aside: you might also find some of the equivalent books about the early tech movements interesting; I got into them when I had trouble finding good retro-gaming books several years. Two neat examples would be Exploding The Phone and The Soul Of A New Machine. I never would've guessed that early phreaking or the development of a mainframe could be fascinating, touching and suspenseful, but those books managed to make it seem that way.

The Alphabet of Manliness, TwitterWit, Sex: A Users Guide, Darwin Awards: Evolution in Action

A long time has been spent in that bathroom. It's my throne.

@nick, but the deal was for other people's tweets (authorized): Twitter Wit

Oh look, you can get it for a penny now on Amazon!

Recommended reading for follow-up on the Capt'n Crunch thread: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0802122280

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buy this:

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