Humble Book Bundle: Hacking Reloaded
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Humble Book Bundle: Hacking Reloaded
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#2Last time there was a bundle like this (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14791255) dsacco wrote an awesome comment with recommendations on which books to pick up. Any chance for another round?
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#3Big shoutouts to No Starch Press for these awesome book bundles. I own many of these physically but will pick this up anyway.
Thanks for the extra swag at DefCon too, Bill!
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#4Last time there was a bundle like this ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14791255 ) dsacco wrote an awesome comment with recommendations on which books to pick up. Any chance for another round?
The entire $15 tier is worth it, except for maybe the IDA Pro book if you have no interest in either reversing or using IDA Pro. It's mostly a software reference.
Book of PF & Absolute OpenBSD are somewhat essential if you have interest in OpenBSD, but the latter is skippable if you're a seasoned neckbeard/sysadmin.
I can't really say anything else about the lower tier books, but the 35% off coupon is quite nice.
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#5Last time there was a bundle like this ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14791255 ) dsacco wrote an awesome comment with recommendations on which books to pick up. Any chance for another round?
This would be great
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#6Last time there was a bundle like this ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14791255 ) dsacco wrote an awesome comment with recommendations on which books to pick up. Any chance for another round?
The entire $15 tier is worth it, except for maybe the IDA Pro book if you have no interest in either reversing or using IDA Pro. It's mostly a software reference. Book of PF & Absolute OpenBSD are somewhat essential if you have interest in OpenBSD, but the latter is skippable if you're a seasoned neckbeard/sysadmin. I can't really say anything else about the lower tier books, but the 35% off coupon is quite nice.
Speaking of BSD. While the OpenBSD guys are not on the Humble charity list, The FreeBSD Foundation is, and both Peter N.M. Hansteen and Michael W. Lucas (the authors of the two of the respective books you mentioned) seem to be into FreeBSD also.
So to anyone else buying the bundle primarily for the books on OpenBSD, and who happen to support FreeBSD also:
1. Log in or create an account.
2. Go to https://www.humblebundle.com/store/select-charity/charity/21... and select it as your chosen charity to support.
3. When you go to pay for the books adjust the sliders so that you give some percentage (I chose 100%) to charity and under charity adjust the slider for The FreeBSD Foundation (once again I chose 100%).
Deal? Deal!
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#7I'd also be interested in someone knowledgeable weighing in on the quality of those books.
My first world problem with somewhat random information dumps like that is usually that I don't really find that it's a lack of resources holding you back from learning about certain topics, it's a lack of time. The quality of those books really has to significantly eclipse what's available on the internet (especially in terms of presentation of the material) before it seems worth buying them (to be fair, price is not a real issue here, just in principle). For instance, I don't really see the value of software reference manuals (unless you already know the software and just need the reference, but then you would likely own it already and not buy it from humble bundle, right?).
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
The entire $15 tier is worth it, except for maybe the IDA Pro book if you have no interest in either reversing or using IDA Pro. It's mostly a software reference. Book of PF & Absolute OpenBSD are somewhat essential if you have interest in OpenBSD, but the latter is skippable if you're a seasoned neckbeard/sysadmin. I can't really say anything else about the lower tier books, but the 35% off coupon is quite nice.
Speaking of BSD. While the OpenBSD guys are not on the Humble charity list, The FreeBSD Foundation is, and both Peter N.M. Hansteen and Michael W. Lucas (the authors of the two of the respective books you mentioned) seem to be into FreeBSD also. So to anyone else buying the bundle primarily for the books on OpenBSD, and who happen to support FreeBSD also: 1. Log in or create an account. 2. Go to https://www.humblebun…
Good advice on setting your charity. I'd be hesitant for mass amount of people going 100% charity as this needs to be worth it for both starch and humblebundle in order to get similar deals :)
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#9Big shoutouts to No Starch Press for these awesome book bundles. I own many of these physically but will pick this up anyway. Thanks for the extra swag at DefCon too, Bill!
Shout-out to them for not backing down when publishing Bunnie Huang's "Hacking the Xbox." Even MIT refused to have his back.
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#10Last time there was a bundle like this ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14791255 ) dsacco wrote an awesome comment with recommendations on which books to pick up. Any chance for another round?
I would, but unfortunately I’ve not read a greater proportion of the ones in this round :)