Disturbing

This book upset me. Not really the book itself, that's great, but what it implies: that this type of exploit hasn't gone away. I thought things were getting better, but the author explains that is an illusion: it's just that the reporting slacked off.

It is hard to believe that programmers keep making the same mistakes over and over again. This book shows what those mistakes are and how hackers exploit them. You need a good understanding of assembly language to get much out of this, but if you do have that background, this is a real eye-opener.

Extremely detailed, and some of this is a bit of a reach for me (it's been many a year since I did any C or Assembler), but it is fascinating, though in the same sense that watching a tiger stalk you would be: it's scary.

Certainly recommended for people who are writing code today, and I hope more of them pay attention, though the authors attitude seems to be that these problems will continue to plague us.

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• Full of errors and inconsistencies
• Great book to start with.
• Proofread? Editorial and Technical reveiw?....
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• Disturbing