Whenever sites like this pop up, the really valuable thing to me is finding a book that's a synthesis of two topics. I can find many specific books with code examples here for things like financial maths, portfolio management, etc.
If this is just a link to a bunch of PDFs, then presumably PDF malware is an issue here. I would have thought computer books would be a fine vector to choose if you were trying to compromise websites and business systems.
Use a in-browser PDF renderer, such as mozilla/pdf.js which Firefox uses, and the true and tested browser sandbox will most likely be very helpful.
Obviously, not helpful against three-letter agencies who like to sit on browser zero-days until they need to use them, but against most threats you'll be fine.
Is there any comparable resource that also (explicitly) includes copyrighted material? I believe a curated list containing the "cream of the crop" of a specific domain would be an excellent resource for anyone starting out.
Worth mentioning that usually you don't end up in legal troubles for consuming copyrighted material but for reproducing/sharing copyrighted material, and often not until you do so at scale.
>This site neither supports copyright infringement, nor links to web sites that trade copyrighted material. If you find any questionable links on this web site, please contact the webmaster (see the contact info at the bottom).
There's also freetechbooks.com , which is a database of links to actually Freely available / Open Access books , which includes the license information.
I checked the OP link. Clicking on any category pops up an ad that needs to be explicitly "closed". It happens again and again as you navigate through the site. Annoying like hell.
1. You browse the web without an adblocker in $currentYear?
2. I turned off my adblocker and checked, it's not fair to call it a "pop-up", it's more like it slides up from the bottom of the screen whenever you load a new page.
Content littered with ads can not be considered free.
The difference from traditionally paid content is that customers pay with their attention and virtual purchasing power instead of spending money directly.
[+] [-] asicsp|3 years ago|reply
* https://ebookfoundation.github.io/free-programming-books/boo...
* https://ebookfoundation.github.io/free-programming-books/boo...
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It's written by Shriram Krishnamurthi, who is a really interesting researcher who cares quite a lot about CS education.
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[0] http://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/sk-aut...
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Obviously, not helpful against three-letter agencies who like to sit on browser zero-days until they need to use them, but against most threats you'll be fine.
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> Therefore, this website is as legal as search results of any search engines like Google, Yahoo, etc.
It's worth pointing out that this site may link to copyrighted material.
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2. I turned off my adblocker and checked, it's not fair to call it a "pop-up", it's more like it slides up from the bottom of the screen whenever you load a new page.
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[+] [-] D4ckard|3 years ago|reply
Nonetheless ads obviously allow access for all.