Back from the library...

OK, I’m back from my library excursion. I picked up several books.

The afore-mentioned title: The Cuckoo’s Egg as well as Takedown and Masters of Deception, I was hoping that my library had some of Mitnick’s own work, but if any of you know anything about the library around here, you probably predicted my lack of luck with that goal!

I’ve read The Cuckoo’s Egg and Takedown before, Masters of Deception is new to me, and hopefully it’s good.
I’d like to find some newer “geek” titles, I know they’re out there, I just need to go look them up… plus pay for them, no thanks to our crummy library. (They have NO selection of any worth, and are extremely slow at pulling in new titles, if you want a book, you have to buy it for yourself and your own home library!)


OK, what I’ve been doing for my own furtherance lately:

I’ve been working on coding problems. These can be found in many places online and provide excellent practice in writing code and thinking in a programming language.

Most recently I wrote a C++ application to decipher a folded cipher, a solution to the problem presented here.

That was fun, it took me about two hours, and I learned stuff! :-)

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EDITED: for clarity on the library bit