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Beautiful Security

iOS iPhone

By Andy Oram, John Viega

Published by O'Reilly Media (http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596527488/)

Although most people don't give security much attention until their personal or business systems are attacked, this thought-provoking anthology demonstrates that digital security is not only worth thinking about, it's also a fascinating topic. Criminals succeed by exercising enormous creativity, and those defending against them must do the same.

Beautiful Security explores this challenging subject with insightful essays and analysis on topics that include:

* The underground economy for personal information: how it works, the relationships among criminals, and some of the new ways they pounce on their prey

* How social networking, cloud computing, and other popular trends help or hurt our online security

* How metrics, requirements gathering, design, and law can take security to a higher level

* The real, little-publicized history of PGP

This book includes contributions from:

* Peiter "Mudge" Zatko

* Jim Stickley

* Elizabeth Nichols

* Chenxi Wang

* Ed Bellis

* Ben Edelman

* Phil Zimmermann and Jon Callas

* Kathy Wang

* Mark Curphey

* John McManus

* James Routh

* Randy V. Sabett

* Anton Chuvakin

* Grant Geyer and Brian Dunphy

* Peter Wayner

* Michael Wood and Fernando Francisco

All royalties will be donated to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).

Superb Reading Features
Through a partnership between O'Reilly Media and Lexcycle, this app includes the same features that have made Stanza an iPhone phenomenon with over a million downloads:
* Full book text search
* Several fonts and themes to choose from
* Built-in dictionary
* The ability to add annotations
* Landscape view
* Extensive cross-referencing and working hyperlinks
* Zoom function for images and screenshots

About O'Reilly Media
O'Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazines, research, and conferences. Whether it's delivered in print, online, or in person, everything O'Reilly produces reflects the company's unshakeable belief in the power of information to spur innovation. Learn more about Ebooks from O'Reilly at oreilly.com/ebooks.

About Lexcycle
Lexcycle is the creator of Stanza Bookbinder which was used to create this standalone book application. Stanza Bookbinder is based on the popular iPhone Ebook reading application, Stanza. For more information about Stanza, visit www.lexcycle.com.