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Profiling Hackers: The Science of Criminal Profiling as Applied to the World of Hacking

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Being a hacker myself I am deeply offended by how they lump the term "hacker" with crime. Hacking isn't about breaking into someone's computer and stealing their data or any other computer related crime, that is actually looked down upon in the hacker community. We have a name for people like that, we call them crackers. Hacking is a type of exploration or playful cleverness. It's doing something hard just for the sake of doing it. In short I don't recommend this book to anyone who really wants to learn what hackers are or do.

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If you want a good book about hackers Paul Graham's book "Hackers and Painters" is a great read.

This book is an excellent guide to familiarize oneself with the issues of cyberspace. It not only provides an overview of the history, ethics, and types of hacking but outlines the different actors, differentiates their actions, and proposes a typology. It is therefore one of the few books on this topic that moves beyond the anecdotal and is an attempt at a more substantive, long-term approach to examine critical issues tied to cyberspace, notably the profiling of criminal hackers. Written by an insider yet accessible to novices it is particularly the systematic overview of techniques and actors that are a strength of this book and make it a good read.