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Article: You Believe In Computer Security? Then There's A Bridge In Brooklyn You Should Buy.(Review)
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- Computer Technology Review
- Article date:
- September 1, 2000
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You have to respect an author who begins a book by confessing that he wrote it "partly to correct a mistake," especially when that author is one of the most respected authorities in a highly technical field. That's exactly bow Bruce Schneier begins his new book on computer security, Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World (John Wiley & Sons, Inc. New York. 2000). What he is actually confessing is a kind of native shared by, altogether, too many people regarding computer security: that technology is the answer. That was the implied thesis of his earlier book on applied cryptography, still an excellent guide to the guts of cryptographic systems.
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