chloethonus 's review for:

The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security by William L. Simon, Kevin D. Mitnick, Steve Wozniak
4.5
informative reflective fast-paced
Being a cyber security expert I thought this book was pretty good, especially compared to Mitnick's other books. The stories do get repetitive the further into the book you get but there are slight differences in each one, I think this could have been improved by using less stories and asking the readers to refer back to earlier stories when considering the subject of future chapters. I didn't find it to be talking down to the reader and found much of the advice given to be reasonable improvements in security that often times in reality are not included. How often do you just trust caller ID or someone who knows industry or company secrets after all?
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