Title: Terrible writing about stupid "security experts"
Product review: I read some good reviews of this book and decided to buy it. I'm about 130 pages in and its agonizing. The writing is terrible - most pulp fiction is of a better quality. So if not the writing, what about the tech? Well, you have to suspend your disbelief, go along with the vanity of the main character who thinks he is God's own security expert (testifying to congress, no less), but doesn't have the brains to look up an obscure quote (which is biblical) on Google. Or one of the world's top undergound hackers, who "encrypts" highly sensitive data using repeated XOR with the chapter and verse corresponding to said biblical quote.If you know nothing about security, you may find this book mildly educational (but you could do so much better - go read "Security Warrior" instead, for example). If you do know about security, you will find yourself groaning at the stupidity of it all.
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