Reddit reviews The Best of 2600: A Hacker Odyssey

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FREE TIME/FUN/MISC.
The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security
The Art of War
Steal This Computer Book 4.0: What They Won't Tell You about the Internet
How to Disappear: Erase Your Digital Footprint, Leave False Trails, and Vanish without a Trace
The Best of 2600: A Hacker Odyssey
Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart
Casting the Net: From ARPANET to INTERNET and Beyond thanks sjhill
A Quarter Century of UNIX thanks sjhill
A Reading List For the Self-Taught Computer Scientist thanks zinver
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk thanks segamix
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable thanks AgonistAgent
Snow Crash thanks AgonistAgent
Cryptonomicon thanks Mirple

Don’t forget the book collection of a ton of back issues. I have it in hardback.

Edit: link to the book I meant.

https://www.amazon.com/Best-2600-Hacker-Odyssey/dp/0470294191

Probably The Best of 2600... I know of a few prisoners who would love this... mostly from the "letters" section of the magazine (pretty awesome that some prisons will let them keep their subscriptions coming there). Though some of them likely have lifetime subscriptions anyway.

Those who thirst for knowledge are sometimes punished. But this would help keep them satisfied for the time they were put away.

http://www.amazon.com/Best-2600-Hacker-Odyssey/dp/0470294191

This book has a ton of little 'hacks' like this and explanations. In this case it said that for local mail you may get away with it as long as you hide it within other letters that have postage since otherwise the mailman will just leave it in the mailbox. Also, long distance mail will likely be noticed, but there are other ways to try and trick the system.

If you are looking for specific examples of netsec related things you could check out 2600: A hacker odyssey. It has a ton of great articles of hacking/netsec stories from as far back as the 70's (I think) that I found to be both entertaining and informative.