Thanks to my former publisher, Addison-Wesley nee-Pearson Education, I can post several chapters of my favorite writing project: Authentication: From Passwords to Public Keys. I'm including these chapters as material for the Cloud Cybersecurity course I'm doing at the University of Minnesota for Coursera. The book was published in 2001, and it's based on solid,... Continue Reading →
A few years ago I moved my private library to the cloud. It uses Calibre to catalog my books, and the Open Publication Distribution System (OPDS) to provide an Internet-capable catalog. OPDS is built in to a lot of publisher-independent e-reader software. My e-readers can generally retrieve books from Internet hosts that provide OPDS. My... Continue Reading →
Every cybersecurity professional knows - and almost certainly owns - this book. Ross Anderson published the first edition back around 2001. He's starting a third edition and is using an on-line collaborative model for developing revisions. He has already posted drafts of a few revised chapters. Ross recently pointed out a disappointing result from Edward... Continue Reading →
The trouble reported earlier with Apple Music seems to have attracted high level attention. James Pinkstone had reported that Apple Music deleted countless unique tracks he had stored in iTunes, and that an Apple service rep assured him this was correct behavior. As he describes in a later blog post, Apple contacted him promptly. They... Continue Reading →
[UPDATE: Apple now claims this was a bug; see the updated post] This is perhaps the worst example of entertainment engineering I've ever heard. Blogger and musician jamespinkstone claims that Apple Music deleted countless unusual tracks in his music collection. It "matched" the tracks with entries in its library. Then it deleted the matched ones from his... Continue Reading →
I started collecting digital content in the 1980s. Before that I was satisfied to print things out, bind them, and put them on a shelf. My graduate research produced about three linear feet of printed papers sorted by author. I wrote my first book mostly from printed references, though all the writing was online. When I... Continue Reading →
