John Biggs of Techcrunch and Crunchgear has made his first book, Black Hat: Misfits, Criminals, and Scammers in the Internet Age available as a free download. Biggs asks only that you email him or tweet him at @johnbiggs to let him know you grabbed a copy: "It took me a two years to write this and it took Apress many resources to publish it. Now, however, it's run its natural life and I'd like to perform this experiment to see how many copies will circulate in order to assess the feasibility of releasing books like this in the future."
Free book! Black Hat: Misfits, Criminals, and Scammers in the Internet Age
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