Best “All in One” E-texts I can hand out to newbies

I have these meetings the first Saturday of every month where a bunch of folks from the local area get together and talk about computer/network security. I’ve noticed recently that a lot of the presentations are flying over some of the folks heads, like when I started to explain Nmap and OS fingerprinting to someone and found out they did not know what a port was. What I’m asking for is advice on any e-texts I could print off and give to new folks to catch them up on TCP/IP networks, and maybe a 2nd one that covers the basics of computer security. What are the best one stop e-texts out there that I could give out that would get people up to speed enough to understand the more experienced folks presentations? Any suggestions?

you really need to search around for ebooks.. you probably will be finding pdf's instead of txt's.

search google for "oreilly ebooks"

this link has a few good things but they are pretty much higher level stuff.
maybe you can grab pieces that might apply.

http://www.comms.engg.susx.ac.uk/fft/

somewhere I had saved other links for ebooks I'll look around and pm you if I can find them.

Checkout fyodor's links at http://www.insecure.org/reading.html

also check http://www.packetstormsecurity.com/papers/

http://www.packetstormsecurity.com/magazines/

http://www.insecure.org/links.html

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html

http://www.etext.org/index.shtml

http://www.wbglinks.net/ (has a html reads section on the right hand side)

http://www.securitydocs.com/

I can't give you one in particular but I am sure you can find what your looking for amongst these links :)

Check Out

http://www.flashdance.cx/books/

http://www.thefreecountry.com/

Theyv'e got tons of books !

Don't forget the sans reading room or security focus

http://www.sans.org/rr/

http://www.securityfocus.com

Lots of good papers there.

http://techbooksforfree.com/security.shtml