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[FYI] Ross Anderson: Security Engineering: A Guide to Dependable Distributed Systems.



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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