Mon, 29 Aug 2005
Silence on the Wire
Michal Zalewski, Silence on the Wire, No Starch Press
It behoves all of us to pay some attention to security issues.
If a few more ordinary Joes had some sort of clue, there would
be a lot less zombie PCs spewing out distraction and destruction.
This book isn't really aimed at ordinary Joe however. It goes beyond the
currently obvious as far as quite well educated security people
are concerned and looks at other possibilities. As such it makes
interesting reading for full-on paranoids, hackers, and people
involved in coding and security. All of which might make you think
that it's a pity it wasn't a better world as all this sort of work
that occupies so many people at the moment is, in the greater scheme
of things, pretty much a waste of time.
Intellectual curiosity is another thing though and frequently
shuns practicality. Here there are quite a few topics that might
interest those inclined -- how your keystrokes can be monitored from
a long way away, using timing patterns to reconstruct data,
emissions, an ethernet flaw and much more besides. It's the sort of
thing that if you're interested, you're interested.
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