Out of the inner circle
by Bill Landreth · first published 1985
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Out of the Inner Circle (1985) - the autobiographical true story of "The Cracker" Bill Landreth.
on “Ask HN: Recommendations of good cybercrime novels?” ↗…read, if you have the mathematical background (it definitely helps to read this in parallel with a study in number theory, combinatorics, etc) Anatomy of Lisp. The art of the meta-object protocol. Out of the inner circle. The Soul of a new Machine. Unix Internals, the new frontiers. Effective C++. SICP. More recently, I found the C# specification a page turner. Easy to read, and almost every section made me think…
on “Which programming book you just couldn’t stop reading from start to end?” ↗A similarly fascinating and influential book for me (at age 10, mind you) was Out of the Inner Circle, a book whose cover featured the "computer intruder" author with a black box over his eyes. So as you might guess, it was very much following in the same outlaw hacker mold which may have been set with…
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