Hack Attack

It's colorful, controversial, cutting-edge - and you can't wait to read the next issue. Since its birth in 1984, the quarterly magazine 2600 has provided fascinating articles for readers who are curious about technology. Find the best of the magazine’s writing in Best of 2600: A Hacker Odyssey, a collection of the strongest, most interesting, and often most controversial articles covering 24 years of changes in technology, all from a hacker’s perspective.

Included are stories about the creation of the infamous tone dialer "red box" that allowed hackers to make free phone calls from payphones, the founding of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the insecurity of modern locks. Hackers aplenty abound in this volume, all telling their stories in their own words. Some of the trailblazing tales include:

• Hacking an election
• How to track any UK GSM mobile phone
• Pirate radio primer
• Hacking Google Adwords
• And, of course, loads more!