// Alternatives
Alternatives to La face cachée d'internet
Books in our catalog with overlapping topics and a similar reading level to La face cachée d'internet. If La face cachée d'internet is the wrong fit at beginner level, start here.
01 · 2021
How Cybersecurity Really Works
Sam Grubb's gentle, exercise-driven introduction for non-specialists who need a working mental model of attacker behaviour and basic defence.
Beginner4/5Sam Grubb02 · 2019
Foundations of Information Security
Jason Andress' compact tour of the field: confidentiality / integrity / availability, identification and authentication, network and OS controls, written for newcomers and adjacent disciplines.
Beginner4/5Jason Andress03 · 2014
Anonymat sur Internet
A practical French guide to online anonymity and privacy — proxies, VPNs, Tor, secure messaging and mobile — by a Le Monde cybersecurity journalist (later one of the Pegasus reporters).
Beginner3/5Martin Untersinger04 · 2019
The Pragmatic Programmer
Thomas and Hunt's career-defining set of practical heuristics for writing software professionally — orthogonality, broken-windows, DRY, tracer bullets, and the underlying argument that craftsmanship is a posture, not a process.
Beginner5/5David Thomas, Andrew Hunt05 · 2025
Linux Basics for Hackers
OccupyTheWeb's introduction to Linux from the angle that hackers and pentesters actually need it: shells, networking, scripting, and Kali tooling.
Beginner4/5OccupyTheWeb06 · 2024
Dark Wire
Journalist Joseph Cox's account of Anom, the encrypted phone company secretly run by the FBI from 2018 to 2021, and of the global wave of arrests that followed Operation Trojan Shield.
Beginner4/5Joseph Cox07 · 2024
Hacks, Leaks, and Revelations
Micah Lee on the operational craft of working with leaked datasets: authentication, OPSEC for sources and journalists, and the Python tooling to actually parse what arrives in your dropbox.
Beginner4/5Micah Lee08 · 2023
Fancy Bear Goes Phishing
Five famous hacks used as a way into the deeper question of why software is insecure at all, written by a Yale law professor who learned to code to write it. More a history and theory of vulnerability than a how-to.
Beginner4/5Scott J. Shapiro09 · 2023
Pegasus
The inside story of the Forbidden Stories investigation into NSO Group's Pegasus spyware, told by the journalists who ran it. The best narrative account of what commercial zero-click surveillance actually does to its targets.
Beginner4/5Laurent Richard, Sandrine Rigaud10 · 2022
Cyberattaques
A clear, journalistic decoding of the cyberattack ecosystem — ransomware gangs, state actors, and the economics and geopolitics behind the headlines — by one of France's best-known cyber experts.
Beginner4/5Gérôme Billois, Nicolas Cougot