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B&N Removes Magazine From Nook Store Due To Feature Article On 'Hacking'
- zitterbewegung 15y agoThis is probably the best thing that could happen to this magazine though. Publicity from all these news sources.
- ranit8 15y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect at play.
- guywithabike 15y agoCurious. I always used to get my 2600 from their shelves, and they were always prominently displayed.
- cantankerous 15y agoI did too, though it made for some weird conversations at the checkout counter.
- Canuteson 15y agoI came to say the exact same thing. And they still carry "The Hacker Quarterly". http://www.barnesandnoble.com/c/2600-magazine http://www.barnesandnoble.com/c/2600-magazine
- rbanffy 15y agoThey must think it's about woodwork with axes or for people who have chronic coughing problems.
- jlgreco 15y agoThey still carry them, but recently (starting maybe 2 or 3 years ago really), the BN in Philadelphia has been 'hiding' their copies of 2600 in the cabinets underneath the magazine racks. I don't know if poor sales or customer complaints are the cause.
- mjwalshe 15y agowell back in the early/mid 90's in the Uk Forbidden Planet used to have Mondo 2000 and Wired in the rack next to Skin 2. Skin2 is a famous Fetish Mag - for those you who don't get out much.
- AJ007 15y agoSame here. Additionally Amazon carries the digital version of 2600 (although I wish it came in the same visual format as the print version.)
- GBond 15y agoCame here to say the same as well. My guess? The same management that "knee-jerk reaction" bans a mag just because it has the word HACK in bold large text doesn't bother to figure out the actual contents of 2600.
- nextparadigms 15y agoYou'd think a book store's manager wouldn't judge a book by its cover.
- cantankerous 15y agoThis article goes out to say that the term "Hack" is increasingly less commonly used to refer to malicious users. While that might be true in tech circles, I'm skeptical that a significantly larger group of people off the street would respond positively if I asked them what the term "hack" meant. I'm not saying Hacking is bad, I think the term has been somewhat hijacked, sure. But, let's be realistic, I think it's generally a negative term to most people and will probably stay that way into the indefinite future.
- mjwalshe 15y agoYes I think the author of the article desperately wants "hack" to have its old MIT usage - I am afraid that train has left the station decades ago.
- TazeTSchnitzel 15y agoWell, this website still uses it...
- 4ad 15y agoNo. On this site hacker doesn't have any of its original meaning, it means IT-startup entrepreneur. Don't forget that this site was named Startup News before.
- kleiba 15y agoSo why was it renamed then? The name hackernews was actually chosen to reflect that this news site should not only be strictly about IT startups. http://ycombinator.com/hackernews.html http://ycombinator.com/hackernews.html
- gnu8 15y agoThe negative meaning should not be accepted or acknowledged. When something is incorrect it's incorrect, no matter how many people believe it.
- sehugg 15y agoThe article on cursory glance seems to be no more than a brief tutorial on Metasploit, books about which are available for purchase on B&N.com.
- erickhill 15y agoCensorship is censorship. It never works, and in this particular case sounds incredibly ignorant. Some day perhaps there will be a deep-catalog "open source e-bookstore" that is device agnostic so the gatekeepers are bypassed altogether. Hm...
- antidoh 15y agoSign me up. Oh, wait, they have that now, in the form of torrent sites. I think their prospectus would have some statement of existential risk.
- libria 15y agoHere is the cover in question: http://www.linuxformat.com/files/lxf_covers/154-big.jpg http://www.linuxformat.com/files/lxf_covers/154-big.jpg. > Learn to Hack, Attack servers >> Crack passwords >> Exploit services >> Beat encryption >> Everything you need to be evil Not sure if that warrants pulling from shelves, but it explicitly endorses illegal activity. Everything up until the last phrase could be sold as legitimate penetration testing. I can easily see their lawyers getting twitchy.
- coolgeek 15y agoOriginal source: http://tuxradar.com/content/learn-hack-was-pulled-barnes-and-noble http://tuxradar.com/content/learn-hack-was-pulled-barnes-and... Techdirt is the third-hand source here.
- snowwrestler 15y agoThen presumably they'll also be removing books like this one? http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/web-security-testing-cookbook-brian-hope/1100157489 http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/web-security-testing-cookboo...
- darksaga 15y agoI had the same reaction when I saw the issue with the title, "How to Beat the CIA - Keep Everybody Out with our Ultimate Privacy Guide."
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