Title: Padded to the brim with irrelevant information
Product review: I'm afraid I can't recommend this book, being one of the least useful and most poorly written "security" books I've seen. It is padded out with so many pages of useless programming listings and voluminous other unnecessary tables, screendumps and incorrect information it is embarrassing. Take for example an entire chapter devoted to the "C" programming language that goes into detail describing MS-DOS 16-bit pointer types and how to write a DOS TSR program. This was obviously culled from some programming reference from the mid 80s. How relevant is this to security in this day and age? How relevant is this particular chapter even to *programming* in this day and age? Answer: none. And I'm afraid the same goes for the bulk of the book. This is security for twinkies!
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