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[FYI] Ross Anderson: Security Engineering: A Guide to Dependable Distributed Systems.
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- Subject: [FYI] Ross Anderson: Security Engineering: A Guide to Dependable Distributed Systems.
- From: "Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>
- Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 08:11:09 +0200
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http://cryptome.org/yum-mum.htm
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1 July 2001
Security Engineering
While the world's authorities are concaving in secret to devise means
to protect their national and economic security, a single book will
thwart whatever defenses are in place and likely to be set up in the
near future: Security Engineering: A Guide to Dependable Distributed
Systems, by Ross Anderson. See
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/book.html
Why, it will be asked someday in a committee of inquiry, why was this
book not classified at birth, OSA'd at Cheltenham, pulped Ft. Meade.
To execute the mythical digital Pearl Harbor, this book tells how.
Get it before it is classified as dangerous munition.
Dr. Anderson, a distinguished scientist at Cambridge University, is
presumably no terrorist of weapons of mass destruction, nor a deep
black economic spy hiding in Echelon's shadow, but he has provided a
perfect guide for cheating and beating the most sophisticated
security systems now deployed for keeping the citizenry and their
nations safe from harm.
Responsibly, Dr. Anderson provides recommendations for constructing
truly secure systems, but if the past practices he bountifully
ridicules are a guide to the present and future, he will be ignored
by all except those whose golden arms aim to handsomely profit from
willful neglect of security weaknesses.
Aspirant war criminals, intelligence nostalgics, rogue statists, drug
kingpins, mafiosi, tax-avoiders, auto-authoritarians, all those too
wise to slave for patriotism and pittance, will rejoice at Mr.
Anderson's revelations of how to liberate military secrets, banking
assets, masterpiece art, estate luxuries, classified files and
intimate data, from just about any Vatican, any Buckingham, any White
House, vaunting faith-clad assurance that "nobody can snatch these
treasures, no way, impossible, trust us, Inshallah."
Just before you quit your job to practice Dr. Anderson's golden tips
to breaking and entering intelligence archives, bypassing nuclear
weapons locks, glomming chem-biological warfare secrets, apply his
advice to use your firm's computer to clean out the offshore bank
accounts of Boss's alimony avoidances, then go raid the slush funds
of the world's secret services, French leaders not alone in being
bribed for yum mum.
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