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Humble bundle hacking books

Journal by Gaaark

I bought the humble bundle hacking books on sale for myself for Christmas because I'm tired of knowing enough to possibly get myself in trouble but not enough to stay out of trouble.

Some interesting reading, so far.

About 15 books total...DRM free and charitable giving. Nice.

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday December 20 2018, @03:38AM (3 children)

    by takyon (881) <{takyon} {at} {soylentnews.org}> on Thursday December 20 2018, @03:38AM (#776655) Journal

    A real hacker would steal illicitly copy those DRM-free books, then hack a bank and donate to charity only after enriching themselves.

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    • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday December 20 2018, @03:54AM

      by Gaaark (41) Subscriber Badge on Thursday December 20 2018, @03:54AM (#776666) Journal

      :)
      As I said, I know just enough to maybe land on a 'watch list' but not enough to steal money and get away with it, lol.

      I'd just like to learn proper pen testing and hacking for good, not evil...this IS CONTROL, not KAOS!

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 20 2018, @04:45PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 20 2018, @04:45PM (#776836)

      I know youre joking but "hacker" had a different meaning that has morphed into "illegal activity".

  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday December 20 2018, @03:10PM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Thursday December 20 2018, @03:10PM (#776806) Homepage Journal

    I'm tired of knowing enough to possibly get myself in trouble but not enough to stay out of trouble.

    There will never be a time when you know so much, that you can keep yourself out of trouble. If nothing else, they will change the technology so much next year (or next decade) that your obsolete knowledge will cause more problems than it was ever worth!

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  • (Score: 2) by Snow on Thursday December 20 2018, @04:01PM (1 child)

    by Snow (1601) on Thursday December 20 2018, @04:01PM (#776821) Journal

    What the hell man? You can't brag about your Christmas purchase and not provide a link.

    You expect us to google that ourselves? Bah Humbug!

    • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday December 20 2018, @04:58PM

      by Gaaark (41) Subscriber Badge on Thursday December 20 2018, @04:58PM (#776845) Journal

      I expected that as a good Canadian, you'd have it set up to email you about good, charitable stuff like this! :)

      I also love the free stuff from Steam and Gog.com.

      No...no links here again.
      Sorry......sorry.....sorry......

      ;)

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  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday December 20 2018, @06:16PM

    by Freeman (732) on Thursday December 20 2018, @06:16PM (#776884) Journal

    I've purchased a couple of book bundles myself. The one I've probably used the most was the Python Programming book bundle. Been having quite a bit of fun tinkering with Python. Even created a program for myself that saves me some tedious work. Just now getting into tinkering with pymarc. I've used MARCEdit, but it doesn't have some of the functionality I want.

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