The Cyber Plumber's Handbook
Learning and science
security book
SHOW HN2019
How HN took it
7 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 8 critical, out of 24 comments about the project. Thread score -0.01.
Pricing: 1 for, 6 againstIdea: 3 for, 0 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful resource, especially for sysadmins and networking students
From 2 comments
I am somewhat in tears now seeing this. I spent weeks at work trying to backwards analyze GCP IAP, which apparently uses this in the background (invoked via the gcloud CLI).…
Bucephalus355 on HNI am pumped to see this right now, as it will be a great resource for my intro networking students (at the perfect moment in the quarter).
cjcampbell on HN
Good examples and formatting
From 2 comments
Good topic and looks like some good examples. The formatting is nice, easy on the eyes but there is excessive whitespace in the book. Having large screenshots means when they…
171243 on HNCool writeup. Thanks for sharing!
jmakov on HN
Objections
Price too high for the content
From 2 comments
I looked at the table of contents and I am guessing it has many handy tricks and command line examples of already public tools. Doesn't look like its should be as costly as 19$.…
rvalue on HNOn this side of the world it's 5.18.19 and yet $19 bucks for the book. Also did not ask for an email, so in essence, I have no words.
deleterious on HN
Promo link expired
From 2 comments
I tried to download it, but it looks like your promo code expired.
hawkweed on HNit says that promotion code expired
beastea on HN
Excess whitespace in layout
From 1 comment
Good topic and looks like some good examples. The formatting is nice, easy on the eyes but there is excessive whitespace in the book. Having large screenshots means when they…
171243 on HN
Requests
EPUB version
From 2 comments
Looks great, thanks for sharing. Any plan to make an epub available? I’d love to read it on an e-ink display.
mrzool on HNI'd really appreciate an epub. I read anything across a variable range of display sizes and PDFs just don't cut it anymore.
emptysongglass on HN
Coverage of SSH hardening
From 1 comment
Thanks for sharing and the effort put in so far. After a quick glance over I think you should consider giving at least a glancing mention in your intro section to the importance…
xoa on HN
Questions
Advice on moving from software engineering into pentesting
From 1 comment
Wow, this looks great, thanks for sharing! You mention this book as targetting pentesters. Do you have any advice on tools or skills to know for a software engineer to transition…
miccah on HN
Whether a free copy is still available after the giveaway
From 1 comment
Dang it I found this post on Monday after the free give away ended. Any way of still getting a free copy?
devinjflick on HN
Alternatives named
socat
From 1 comment
This is great, thank you. I'm a big fan of socat for plumbing in pentesting environments, it's an amazing tool. Never had much luck with meterpreter's port forwarding as it seems…
leetbulb on HN
Metasploit portfwd
From 1 comment
This is great, thank you. I'm a big fan of socat for plumbing in pentesting environments, it's an amazing tool. Never had much luck with meterpreter's port forwarding as it seems…
leetbulb on HN