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Book
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Whom
can
you
trust?
Try
Bruce
Schneier,
whose
rare
gift
for
common
sense
makes
his
book
Secrets
and
Lies:
Digital
Security
in
a
Networked
World
both
enlightening
and
practical.
He's
worked
in
cryptography
and
electronic
security
for
years,
and
has
reached
the
depressing
conclusion
that
even
the
loveliest
code
and
toughest
hardware
still
will
yield
to
attackers
who
exploit
human
weaknesses
in
the
users.
The
book
is
neatly
divided
into
three
parts,
covering
the
turn-of-the-century
landscape
of
systems
and
threats,
the
technologies
used
to
protect
and
intercept
data,
and
strategies
for
proper
implementation
of
security
systems.
Moving
away
from
blind
faith
in
prevention,
Schneier
advocates
swift
detection
and
response
to
an
attack,
while
maintaining
firewalls
and
other
gateways
to
keep
out
the
amateurs.
Newcomers
to
the
world
of
Schneier
will
be
surprised
at
how
funny
he
can
be,
especially
given
a
subject
commonly
perceived
as
quiet
and
dull.
Whether
he's
analyzing
the
security
issues
of
the
rebels
and
the
Death
Star
in
Star
Wars
or
poking
fun
at
the
giant
software
and
e-commerce
companies
that
consistently
sacrifice
security
for
sexier
features,
he's
one
of
the
few
tech
writers
who
can
provoke
laughter
consistently.
While
moderately
pessimistic
on
the
future
of
systems
vulnerability,
he
goes
on
to
relieve
the
reader's
tension
by
comparing
our
electronic
world
to
the
equally
insecure
paper
world
we've
endured
for
centuries--a
little
smart-card
fraud
doesn't
seem
so
bad
after
all.
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