Designing BSD Rootkits: An Introduction to Kernel Hacking

Posted by tripwire45 on May 8, 2007 10:12 PM EDT
tech-unity.com; By James Pyles
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A lot of why I requested this book for review was sheer curiosity. Like many people, I'm used to thinking "Rootkit = bad". Why the heck would any author or publisher want to take on the liability of teaching their readers how to behave unethically and criminally? The little voodoo doll on the cover did nothing to allay my concerns. However, once I had the book in my hands and began to work through it, I saw it with different eyes.

I recently reviewed O'Reilly's, Linux Kernel in a Nutshell for the European version of Linux Magazine and the No Starch Press book Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers: A Guide to Developing Internet Agents with PHP/CURL and Kong's Designing BSD Rootkits seems related to both. As the book's subtitle implies, this text is more about teaching the reader beginning kernel hacking than it is about becoming the programmer's version of a criminal mastermind.

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