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Ross Anderson, a British professor who was recently denied entrance to the US, well-known for his extensive background in cryptography and computer security research, is in the process of writing a new edition of his book on computer security engineering. So far, the preface and two chapters of Security Engineering, 3rd edition are online available for review. Other chapters will follow online as well. The first and second editions will remain available too.
Today I put online a chapter on Who is the Opponent, which draws together what we learned from Snowden and others about the capabilities of state actors, together with what we've learned about cybercrime actors as a result of running the Cambridge Cybercrime Centre. Isn't it odd that almost six years after Snowden, nobody's tried to pull together what we learned into a coherent summary?
There's also a chapter on Surveillance or Privacy which looks at policy. What's the privacy landscape now, and what might we expect from the tussles over data retention, government backdoors and censorship more generally?
Earlier on SN:
Sustainable Security for Durable Goods (2018)
Daniel Stenberg, Author of cURL and libcurl, Denied US Visit Again (2018)
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Tuesday May 21 2019, @04:34PM
... His draft chapters will be taken down (except for 7) when the book is published, for 42 months then it becomes free. Given that one does need current editions but that should give some window for the knowledge to be public.
Aside from that, why would 6 years be a surprise? It took about 20 years for the Holocaust to begin to be discussed seriously, and 5-10 years for Vietnam to begin to be summarized. If there's any change it is that the we expect the length of time to make sense of large and dramatic events to have reduced significantly.
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