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title = "Silence on the Wire: A Field Guide to Passive Reconnaissance and Indirect Attacks - Michal Zalewski"
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date = 2016-06-23
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updated = 2021-02-12
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[taxonomies]
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tags = ["books", "michal zalewski", "reviews", "it", "stars:2",
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"published:2005"]
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[GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/82994.Silence_on_the_Wire):
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There are many ways that a potential attacker can intercept information, or
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learn more about the sender, as the information travels over a network.
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Silence on the Wire uncovers these silent attacks so that system
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administrators can defend against them, as well as better understand and
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monitor their systems.
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{{ stars(stars=2) }}
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This is a book about passive detection. Or active detection. Or attacks. I
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really don't know, because the subject keeps jumping around so much you have
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no idea the point the author wants to make.
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There are plenty explanations for stuff, but mostly is dumbed down to the
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point it doesn't even make sense. Besides that, you have explanations for
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attacks that sounds really scary/cool (depending on your point of view) but
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after you think a bit about it, it is really hard to execute and, with the
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necessary access to do so, you wouldn't really need this kind of stuff.
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Also, there is plenty of "this author research" or "a research that yours
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truly did" that sounds more like "Hey, look how awesome I am" than "you should
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really worry about this thing".
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About the edition, there are original articles in their original form, but
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they are presented in mono spaced font in a weird indentation that doesn't fit
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any layout you chose (landscape, two columns landscape, portrait). Also, there
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are chapter footnotes and book footnotes and both follow the same format,
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which means you will find a "[1]", followed by a "[100]", followed by a "[2]".
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And the author uses "Too," instead of "Also," which, for a non-native English
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speaking person like me, sounds strange as hell.
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