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"Anon" <anonymous@cotse.com> writes:
> Can someone please recommend some good hacking/internet 
> books for me to read.  I am almost finished with "hacking 
> exposed".  Its pretty good.  I need a TCP/IP book and any 
> other good security related books.  Thanks.

For TCP hacking, perhaps get the TCP books by W. Richard
Stevens, along with his "Unix Network Programming". Actually,
I can't recommend Stevens enough; his death September 1st
this year was a great loss to the Unix community.

"Practical Unix/Internet Security" by Simon & Garfunkel... err,
I mean Simson Garfinkel and Gene Spafford is...uhm, very
thorough...almost TOO thorough, IMHO (but don't look there
for "exploits"). It is a canonical textbook on security.

I just picked up today "Maximum Linux Security" by... hey,
it was written by you! .. errmm, well, it was written by some
Anonymous hacker, at least. It's the 2nd book I own now that's
copyrighted year 2000. :) What I've read so far (table of
contents, intro, first 20 pages or so) seems pretty good,
and readable for a beginner. Also, this guy, from quick glances
I took, seems to explain some of the exploits in detail (like
with sample code). I suppose that's why it's written anonymously...

-- 
While the brown ale he quaffed,
Loud then the champion laughed,
And as the wind-gusts waft
The sea-foam brightly,
So the loud laugh of scorn,
Out of those lips unshorn,
From the deep drinking-horn
Blew the foam lightly. --Longfellow