Gus Simmons’s Memoir
March 25 2022Gus Simmons is an early pioneer in cryptography and computer security. I know him best for his work on authentication and covert channels, specifically as related to nuclear treaty...
Read moreAmy Zegart on Spycraft in the Internet Age
February 8 2022Amy Zegart has a new book: Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence. Wired has an excerpt:
In short, data volume and accessibility are...
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Book Sale: Click Here to Kill Everybody and Data and Goliath
November 15 2021For a limited time, I am selling signed copies of Click Here to Kill Everybody and Data and Goliath, both in paperback, for just $6 each plus...
Read moreI Am Parting With My Crypto Library
July 30 2021
The time has come for me to find a new home for my (paper) cryptography library. It’s about 150 linear feet of books, conference proceedings, journals, and monographs —...
Read morePaul van Oorschot’s webpage contains a complete copy of his book: Computer Security and the Internet: Tools and Jewels. It’s worth reading.
Read moreBook Sale: Beyond Fear
May 12 2021I have 80 copies of my 2000 book Beyond Fear available at the very cheap price of $5 plus shipping. Note that there is a 20% chance that your...
Read moreSecond Click Here to Kill Everybody Sale
April 28 2021For a limited time, I am selling signed copies of Click Here to Kill Everybody in hardcover for just $6, plus shipping. I have 600 copies of the book available....
Read moreClick Here to Kill Everybody Sale
January 15 2021
For a limited time, I am selling signed copies of Click Here to Kill Everybody in hardcover for just $6, plus shipping.
Note that I have had occasional problems...
Read moreThe Third Edition of Ross Anderson’s Security Engineering
September 10 2020Ross Anderson’s fantastic textbook, Security Engineering, will have a third edition. The book won’t be published until December, but Ross has been making drafts of the chapters available online...
Read moreCory Doctorow on The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
August 27 2020Cory Doctorow has writtten an extended rebuttal of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff. He summarized the argument on Twitter. Shorter summary: it's not the surveillance part,...
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