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Title: Confessions of a former script kiddie
Review: Two years ago Mr. McNab was a teenager running rootkits against random web servers. Now he is supposedly a professional pen tester.This book is the latest clone of Hacking Exposed, a theme that gets a new title every month. The addition of checklists reeks of big four style mechanization. What people on the outside, looking in, don't seem to understand is that real hacking/cracking is not about running tools to exploit known vulnerabilities. It's about reverse engineering and hand crafting new attacks. Otherwise you're just repeating the same tired lines about social engineering and using buffer overflows against unpatched systems. Nothing to see here folks. Move along.I'm disappointed in O'Reilly for publishing this title.
