Author: Bruce Schneier
ISBN No: 978-1118790816
Review date: 07/12/2025
No of pages: 384
Publisher: Wiley
Publisher URL:
https://www.schneier.com/about.html
Year of publication: 22/01/2014
Brief:
The latest book from US IT security commentator Bruce Schneier
price
£$29.99
The latest book from the US IT security commentator Bruce Schneier is an anthology – Carry On: Sound Advice from Schneier on Security. Among the topics are the Boston Marathon bombing, the NSA’s notorious surveillance, Chinese cyber-attacks and the privacy of cloud computing. Schneier has a knack for knowing what he is talking about, and for linking it to wider social affairs. Schneier is dismayed by last year’s revelations about the US state spying, as aired by Edward Snowden. For example in a recent essay about US government spying on citizens, Schneier argued that we need to recognise that security is more important than surveillance, and work towards that goal. “Not only is ubiquitous surveillance ineffective, it is extraordinarily costly. I don’t mean just the budgets, which will continue to skyrocket. Or the diplomatic costs, as country after country learns of our surveillance programs against their citizens. I’m also talking about the cost to our society. It breaks so much of what our society has built.”
The only hitch – for Schneier, not for readers – is that he posts regularly on his online blog https://www.schneier.com so you can read him when you want for free. He’s written other books, both about IT security such as cryptography, and on the social side of security matters, such as Liars and Outliers, a recent book about trust; and in between the two are works such as Schneier on Security.
Or indeed if you do not feel like reading a book, you can read his essays online going back 20 years, covering topics from the psychology of security to airline travel – https://www.schneier.com/essays.html
Published 2013 by Wiley, 384 pages, ISBN: 978-1118790816.
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About the author
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