Review of Steel Bolt Hacking (Paperback)

The book's intended purpose as stated is to sell lockpicking as a competitive sport, or club.While I agree with the message, several problems made the book very nearly unreadable, and left me wondering why I'd spent money on what is so obviously an amateur web-page in bound form.

As mentioned, much of the information is copy/pasted from one chapter to the next, up to and including diagrams and pictures, with no real reason for the repetition.I suppose the author might have wanted to illustrate how similar different types of locks are in function, but this is a poor way at best to do so.Additionally, numerous spelling and grammatical mistakes broke up whatever flow the book had, from the rapidly (and incorrectly) changing tenses in the author's anecdotes, to simpler mistakes such as 6this. [sic]

If you find this book used, it might be worth the price.Still, if you have any idea already how a lock works, you're better off searching the web for How-To's and FAQ's.It's obvious the author does know the material, and that's what makes me most upset about the book.If he'd bothered to hire an editor, or even a proofreader, he would have improved the book's quality immeasurably, and perhaps made it more saleable.

Product Description
Steel Bolt Hacking is a lock picking book for those that want to learn the art of picking locks as a hobby. With such annual events as DefCon, the annual hackers convention, more and more computer people are becoming interested in learning lock picking. Lock picking sports groups are springing up all over the world with little or no books to support it. Typically the art of lock picking is passed down from locksmith to apprentice and rarely are there any material to help those interested in lock picking, that don't necessarily want to become a locksmith to learn it. Steel Bolt Hacking will teach you more than just the basics, you will learn to pick padlocks, deadbolts, push button combination locks, and how find the number on combination padlocks.

About the Author
Douglas Chick is the author of, What All Network Administrators Know, and creator of the computer professional website, TheNetworkAdministrator.com

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