Название: Hacker Culture A to Z: A Fun Guide to the Fundamentals of Cybersecurity and Hacking (Early Release)
Автор: Kim Crawley
Издательство: O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Год: 2023-02-28
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, epub, mobi
Размер: 10.2 MB

Hacker culture can be esoteric, but this entertaining reference is here to help. Organized from A to Z and written by a longtime hacker, this fun, conversational reference introduces you to key people and companies, fundamental ideas, and milestone films, games, and magazines. From phreaking to deepfakes, from APT to zombie malware, grasping the terminology is crucial to understanding hacker culture and history.

If you're just getting started on your hacker journey, you'll find plenty here to guide your learning and help you understand the references and cultural allusions you come across. More experienced hackers will find historical depth, wry humor, and some perhaps surprising facts about familiar cultural touchstones.

Computer programming languages can be classified according to how much abstraction they have from a CPU’s instruction set. The most abstracted high-level programming languages are the most human readable and intuitive, such as Perl and Python. Low-level programming languages (assembly languages, by contrast, speak the most directly to the CPU. Most are assembly languages, the most esoteric of programming languages. There are different assembly languages for different types of CPUs.