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Excellent Survey of RFID; present and future issues.
This is a compilation of papers from numerous organisations with diverse opinions on how this technology will develop.RFID presents opportunities for great improvement in business efficiencies for corporations and better service for customers and consumers.The flip side is that RFID has the potential to negatively impact individual privacy more than most technologies.
speculative deployments
The chapters are written by different authors, concerning various aspects about RFID. The topics give an idea of the scope of RFID deployment. None of the chapters would be considered technical. You are not required to be an electrical engineer to follow any chapter.
Fast track RFID project helper
For those who want faster diving in RFID technology I would recommend to take a look at DataBrokers TagTracker. Their new version works with LF and HF transponders and uses Hibernate to store scanned data in a database. It comes with PIRF-Lite (Java written API) which allows the user to make new transponder layouts and interact with the RFID reader differently than it is shown in TagTracker. TagTracker itself is enough to collect RFID data from different locations (RFID readers) and store it in a common database. Like a data pump. All you need is to create your own interface to query the database using your preferred languages/tools , etc. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Applied Electromagnetics    2. Automation    3. Business & Economics    4. Business/Economics    5. Computer Books: General    6. Computers - Communications / Networking    7. Data Transmission Systems - General    8. Inventory Control    9. Management - General    10. Microwaves    11. Privacy, Right of    12. Radio frequency identification    13. Radio frequency identification systems    14. Security - General    15. United States    16. Computers / Data Transmission Systems / General    17. Radio technology   

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The world's most business-critical transactions run on Unix machines, which means the machines running those transactions attract evildoers. Furthermore, a lot of those machines have Internet connections, which means it's always possible that some nefarious remote user will find a way in. The third edition of Read more

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Excellent Guide
This book is just what I was looking for.Excellent Security Guide to day to day security issues at my workplace.Information about TPC and UDP ports and their security risks have been very useful.
Order a wrong edition
I saw that there is a bargain of another paperback edition on the page of 3rd edition, so I didn't recheck whether it is 3rd edition. So I end up in buying 2 books, 2nd and 3rd editions, because I need the 3rd edition for my class. It would be better to put edition number up in the page, not only paperback or library binding!

A mile wide, several inches deep, great for filling in gaps
I hate to repeat the cliche, but if you can only buy one security book this year and you are a *nix geek, this should be it, hands down.As some point out, you can probably find everything in this book online, but then again you can find anything online, so why buy any books at all?I don't like giving 5 stars; this book left me no choice.Read more

Subjects:  1. Computer - Internet    2. Computer Books: General    3. Computer security    4. Computers    5. Congresses    6. Internet    7. Internet - Security    8. Operating Systems - UNIX    9. Operating systems (Computers)    10. Programming - General    11. UNIX (Computer file)    12. Computer / Internet    13. Computers / Internet / Security    14. Computers / Operating Systems / UNIX    15. Computers/Operating Systems - UNIX    16. Computers/Programming - General    17. Data security & data encryption    18. Unix, Unix Linux & Unix TCL/TK    19. Unix, security, Mac OS X, Linux, incident, Kerberos, NIS, NFS, LDAP, PAM   

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Great for both camps
This isn't a typical O'Reilly book, and it's definitely not an "animal" book. I think that's something that's thrown a lot of people for a loop the first time they see this book. That change is good, however, because what O'Reilly has delivered is a book whose contents will stand up much longer and be more useful than most of the books out there on any technical subject, from any publisher. By having various viewpoints in information rich, managable pieces so well organized, the book itself is usable both as a read through from cover to cover and as a reference.
VERY VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!
Are you a security researcher or professional? If you are, then this book is for you! Editors Lorrie Faith Cranor and Simson Garfinkel, have done an outstanding job of writing a practical book that will help you realize the need for increased security usability in your systems.
Privacy issues affect security design choices
Lorraine Faith Cranor & Simson Garfinkel's SECURITY AND USABILITY: DESIGNING SECURE SYSTEMS THAT PEOPLE CAN USEexamines the future of computer security with an eye to consider not only the factors which make a system secure, but how privacy design pitfalls, web bugs, and other issues can affect security choices and effectiveness. Most security titles advocate complex systems which are hard to use, but the authors maintain this belief to be wrong, and provide insights into the future of security which presents over thirty essays from leading security experts around the world. ... Read more

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Garfinkel and Spafford, longtime Net veterans, overturn a lot of misconceptions about online security in a commonsense book that is easily accessible to even nontechnical readers. They make it clear that any commercial Web site requires careful attention to security­-even if the site doesn't carry any sensitive information. Furthermore, the authors show that there's a lot more to security than merely encrypting transmissions. Their goal is to lay the foundation for securing the three parts of a system: the Web server and its data; the information that travels between server and user; and the user's own computer and the information stored there.Read more

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Web Security, Privacy & Commerce
Valuable to Technical & Non-Technical Readers
This book is an ideal introduction to the broad landscape of security methods and technologies for non-technical users.It is also an excellent resource for IT professionals who need to quickly get up-to-speed on web security. A good overview, but aging
I spent quite a bit of time going through this book. It's not a bad book. Very comprehensive and thorough, and generally a pretty well balanced point of view. It acknowledges security is a trade off, and looks at many different options.Read more

Subjects:  1. Computer Books: General    2. Computer Data Security    3. Computer Networks    4. Computers    5. Security - General    6. Security measures    7. Web sites    8. World Wide Web    9. Data security & data encryption    10. Internet    11. Cryptography    12. Privacy   

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If you're concerned about the security of personal information on your computer--or in your e-mail--get PGP using this book. Garfinkel's guide to PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) encryption software is a comprehensive guide to secure encryption for everyone and anyone. So much so that even Phil Zimmerman, who created PGP, said he learned new things from this book. But more than that, it takes you behind the scenes into the fascinating history and workings of the great intellectual adventure story of cryptography. This book is a fascinating read as well as a top-notch guide, and is needed now more than ever. ... Read more

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Very good historical perspective of PGP
PGP: Pretty Good Privacy
Depends on What You're Looking For
If you want to learn how to use PGP from a UNIX command line, this is the book for you.If you want to know the history of encryption and the development of PGP as a tool.This, too, may be the book for you. A good PGP and cryptography primer
PGP is a fascinating tool.Most see PGP as a way of sharing files, but the creator of PGP, Phil Zimmerman, really want to make a *privacy* tool.I did not realize this and other things until reading this book.Read more

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Not a bad book, but I wouldn't know
Got the book a while back from a non-amazon seller (but through the Amazon website). Communication between the seller and me was less than phenomenal, in that one day, the book just 'showed up'. Not a bad thing, but as a tracking-fiend, it was dissappointing not to have it tracked well. Book wasn't in flawless condition, it looked like someone had kindof slid it around a desk a lot (perhaps an artifact of their packing/shipping process), but was otherwise exactly as ordered. As for the content, well, I couldn't tell you - haven't had a chance to read it yet. Sorry 'bout that.

Error-ridden and too little actual teaching
Not recommended, although some people like it a lot.� More errors in the text than others, making you go to the web for errata pages.Relies too much on just presenting source code for the reader to type in, without adequate explanation of what the code does and why it's structured the way it is.Less of a gentle introduction than Hillegass's book "Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X", less comprehensive than Anguish's book "Cocoa Programming".

Try a different book first.
This book has potential, but in general I am pretty dissatisfied.Read more

Subjects:  1. Cocoa (Application development    2. Cocoa (Application development environment)    3. Computer - Apple/Macintosh    4. Computer Books: General    5. Computer Books: Operating Systems    6. Computers    7. Hardware - Personal Computers - Macintosh    8. Mac OS    9. Object-oriented programming (C    10. Object-oriented programming (Computer science)    11. Operating Systems - Macintosh    12. Operating Systems - Windows    13. Computer / Apple/Macintosh    14. Computers / Operating Systems / Macintosh    15. Computers/Computer Graphics - General    16. Computers/Hardware - Personal Computers - Macintosh    17. Computers/Operating Systems - Windows    18. Computers/Programming - General    19. Databases & data structures    20. High level programming languages    21. Macintosh OS    22. Object-oriented programming (Computer science   

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Zany, Amusing, Entertaining Muses on Unix OS
I had to the chance to check this zany collection of "hatred" when I was down at Texas State University in San Marcos last semester. I think it's excellent (and funny)! I believe the people who are going to get the most from this book are the ones who come into the text with an "open mind," meaning that they are probably Unix (or Linux) users already and if they aren't, don't let the 'tone' of this book drive you away from Unix.
Things Are Going to Get a Lot Worse Before Things Get Worse
If you can find a copy of this book, grab it and hold on to it, for it's a true UNIX classic. Don't miss the Forward by Donald Norman, Apple Computer, and the Anti-Forward by Dennis Ritchie of AT&T Bell Labs.
A hilarious indictment of the geek's sacred cow
Unix, and to some extent, its offspring Linux have always been something I've hated, and it was very refreshing to come across a book that summed up all my frustrations perfectly. In the Unix Haters Handbook, Daniel Weise and Simson Garfinkel take aim at your average geek's most sacred cows, from Unix to Usenet to the C programming language, and the result is nothing short of hilarious.
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Forget the common cold for a moment. Instead, consider the rise of "false data syndrome," a deceptive method of identification derived from numbers rather than more recognizable human traits. Simson Garfinkel couples this idea with concepts like "data shadow" and "datasphere" in Read more

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Not Completely Original, But Quite Useful
I have been reading books about privacy, notably from Australia where they first got worried about this, and am an admirer of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) based in Washington, D.C. so I can say with confidence that this book is not completely original, but I can also say that it is quite useful.The single best and most original book in this area that I am aware of with my own limitations, is Jeffrey Rothfeder's 1992 classic, "PRIVACY FOR SALE: How Computerization Has Made Everyone's Private Life and Open Secret" (Simon & Schuster).
how Much IS Big Brother Watching?
This is an older book, but one that I specifically requested after reading books like Myth of Homeland Security by Marcus Ranum and Beyond Fear by Bruce Schneier. While those books related directly to homeland or national security in the wake of the 9/11 attack this book predates the attack but describes an Orwellian society where Big Brother monitors everything and privacy is a facade.
Good, but lacks other side of the story...
Good book, especially for someone living on the other side of the world... From European point of view, such privacy violations are something unbelievable. Garfinkel's book simply shows us the hazards of modern technology, and convinces us that our European privacy protecting laws are a good thing, despite sometimes being used to cover bribery or theft.
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Just a big discussion.
I think this is another one of those big books that tries to cover too many topics. It's really just a general discussion about web security, rather than a handbook of any kind. There is a lot of boring history, storytelling, etc.
How Much Do You Really Know About Web Security?
Ever since the birth of the World Wide Web, we have been inundated with books purporting to have all things "Internet", buying into the hype surrounding the explosion of the web. What these books failed to do was educate people about the lack security and privacy inherent on the Internet, That is why I was wanted to read "Web Security, Privacy and Commerce: 2nd Edition" (734 pages (I do not count an index in the page count), O'Reilly Media, 2002, ISBN 0-596-00045-6). Written by Simon Garfinkel, with Gene Spafford, I read more and more with pleasure and anticipation. This was confirmed with a simple line that has often been lost on the masses: the Internet was built for communication and sharing, not for business and the protection of data at each end of the connection. Unfortunately, the explosive growth of the Web did not allow for this issue to be fully addressed or for reliable tools to be built quickly enough.
Good book
Good read, but primarily as an introductory primer. General info and comprehensive, with good discussion and resources. But to really get into the nuts and bolts of this subject, you will need to find other books. Somewhat esoteric at times and frustrating. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Computer Books: Internet General    2. Computer networks    3. Computers    4. Computers - Computer Security    5. Internet - General    6. Internet - Security    7. Networking - General    8. Security - General    9. Security measures    10. Web sites    11. World Wide Web    12. Computers / Computer Security    13. Computers / Security    14. Computers/Internet - General    15. Computers/Networking - General    16. Network security    17. web security, privacy, e-commerce, SSL,Secure Sockets Layer, PKI, Public Key Infrastructure, credit card fraud    18. Electronic commerce    19. Privacy    20. Cryptography    21. Computer Data Security   

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If unwanted advertising is filling your e-mail and clogging up your favorite newsgroups, or if you're a system administrator plagued by spammers, you'll love this book. Schwartz and Garfinkel examine the growth of spam and give readers the tools to help end the problem.Read more

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A dated book.
It is an old book so some of the info is rather dated. No userful information
Yes, ORDB does recommend this book for server administrators with open relay.However, this server administrator found no information in the book that would be helpful in closing an open relay.Complete waste of money and time.

details the broad issues - not specifics
Heavy on pressenting and summarizing issues without many praticalities.It should be titled - Techniques to use in reducing Spam.I would have liked to be presented with the techniques that summarize how Spam companies think as I get most, if not all, of my Spam through one or more junk email companies. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Computer Books: Internet General    2. Computers    3. Electronic Mail    4. Electronic mail systems    5. Internet    6. Internet - General    7. Spam (Electronic mail)    8. Unsolicited electronic mail me    9. Computer Communications & Networking    10. Social & Legal Aspects of Computing   

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Good insight in to the significance of academic reseach labs
This book was an excellent read.Garfinkel was able to write about some of the most interesting developments in network technology.This book is great for people who dont have a complete understanding of what the internet is all about and where it came from.Garfinkel draws a lot of attention and gives a lot of much needed credit to academic research labs for their impact on computer technology.The book's three main parts take the reader on a journey from the development of project MAC (short for multiple access computer and machine aided cognition) in the Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) in MIT to the growth of large computer networks to the impact these networks and systems will have on our society and economy in the future.The book gave me a great history lesson on some of the lesser known aspects of computer network development.I'd recommend this book to anyone who doesnt understand how many years and how long the road has been to developing the computer systems of today.

How I Learned About the Heroes of Internet
It is a pleasure for me to write a review on "Architects of the Information Society ", because I have so much things to say. I have been telling to my friends about this book since I finished first ten pages. I am not talking only with computer scientists about the things I have learned. My mother even loved the stories in it, although she had never used a computer or never logged in Internet. Simson L. Garfinkel has been very successful in choosing the right words, which will make the story interesting for everyone.It is written for everyone who knows what computers and Internet are. It starts fascinating the reader by telling stories about people who think that Internet was invented by some companies connecting the local area networks (LANs) in their office and about two business men praising Microsoft founder Bill Gates for having the vision to invent Windows being unaware of nearly all of the "breakthrough" technologies in Windows had actually been invented more than thirty years before, at MIT just a few miles away from the coffee shop they were in. I think everyone who uses Internet must read this book to have an idea what and who was behind it and to love to use Internet more.It has been written for the celebration of 35th anniversary of the foundation of Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) at MIT. Project MAC (short for Multiple Access Computer and Machine-Aided Cognition) was started in 1963. It was renamed as MIT Laboratory for Computer Science in 1975. Being MIT alumni Garfinkel was lucky in following the tracks of best stories to tell what has been done in LCS. It was Prof. Hal Abelson's idea to make Garfinkel write such a book; he is also the editor of the book. In the preface Garfinkel says that"This book as much his as mine." meaning Abelson.There are three essays in the book. While deciding the themes of the essays, they planned to mention the themes that have been fundamental to the work at LCS. First essay is about the building of "multiple-access computer" by "time-sharing". Second essay is about the growth of computer networks. Third essay is about how networks computer systems have influenced and will continue to influence U.S. economy and society. Garfinkel defines this economy as the economy based on the "exchange of information". The best sentence to show the importance of this book is written by Garfinkel "The step from information systems to information societies was first achieved at MIT in project MAC". ... Read more

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The best Cocoa book is a NeXTStep book.
So obj-c is c with some extensions..... -Still- useful, even for OS X Cocoa development
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