Stealing the Network: The Complete Series Collector's Edition, Final Chapter, and DVD

`Stealing the Network: How to Own the Box is a unique book in the fiction department. It combines stories that are fictional, with technology that is real. While none of the stories have happened, there is no reason why they could not. You could argue it provides a road map for criminal hackers, but I say it does something else: it provides a glimpse into the creative minds of some of today's best hackers, and even the best hackers will tell you that the game is a mental one.` - from the Foreword to the first Stealing the Network book, How to Own the Box, Jeff Moss, Founder & Director, Black Hat, Inc. and Founder of DEFCON

For the very first time the complete Stealing the Network epic is available in an enormous, over 1000 page volume complete with the final chapter of the saga and a DVD filled with behind the scenes video footage!

These groundbreaking books created a fictional world of hacker superheroes and villains based on real world technology, tools, and tactics. It is almost as if the authors peered into the future as many of the techniques and scenarios in these books have come to pass.

This book contains all of the material from each of the four books in the Stealing the Network series.

All of the stories and tech from:

How to Own the Box

How to Own a Continent

How to Own an Identity

How to Own a Shadow

Plus:

Finally - find out how the story ends! The final chapter is here!

A DVD full of behind the scenes stories and insider info about the making of these cult classics!

* Now for the first time the entire series is one 1000+ page book
* The DVD contains 20 minutes of behind the scenes footage
* Readers will finally learn the fate of `Knuth` in the much anticipated Final Chapter

User review
Excellent, fictional series about computer security
As someone both technical and new to this series of books, I found the stories fascinating and hard to put down. Completely unlike any technical book I have ever read, and that is a good thing. Don't let the fictional story fool you -- you will find almost as much info here on relevant tools as you might in books that offer how-to tutorials, maybe even more since this book offers great insight into the minds of hackers trying to penetrate your networks, not just information on the tools they will use to do so. If this book were a movie, you might here the narrator whisper during the opening credits, `Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent,,. and the guilty.` One of the few books I have read in years that I literally could not put down.

User review
Lousy excuse for a book
This book feels somewhat like The Greatest Hits collections that accomplished musicians release every once in a while, combining their good old material with a new bonus track to sell once again to devoted fans. Except the authors must be convinced that their previous books were so good, they all were their greatest hits.

The bonus track (The Final Chapter) is really what I was most interested in, having read the previous books and having been annoyed by the abrupt ending of the last one. I'm not going to say what exactly the ending is, but I must say I would feel better about the world in general if this chapter was never published. It finishes the story in a rush and is terribly anti-climatic. There were two pages of writing that described a single second worth of `climax` but it was so utterly disjoined from the story that it simply failed to make any impression.

As for it being a compilation of previous books in one package, I suppose it might make economical sense to buy this one on sale for