..on Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 03:08:25PM +0200, Sacha van Geffen wrote: > Hi Julian, > > On 10/10/12 13:41, Julian Oliver wrote: > > Hey Sasha, > > > ..... > > > > The book is a handbook, so it should contain the HOWTOs alongside > > introductions > > to core concepts, threats, etc. There was a lot missing from Basic Internet > > Security that needed to be covered for it to be a guide for real newbies. > > There > > were also some tool areas not properly covered and or uppacked for use at > > Crypto > > Parties. Adam Hyde led the sprints of both books. > > that makes sense, still the main point from my last mail was that if you > copy content you should also take the time to check whether the content > is (still) accurate. I am glad you trust us in what we have written, but > you can't use that as the only excuse for having it included, you as > writers should take your responsibility here.
I don't think any of us make that our excuse. We ommitted to copy in your (and/or write other) text to put VPN/PPTP in security context. I'm not sure why/how that happened. An ever visible security checklist for each chapter would've fixed that! > On the other hand this has also shown me one of the things to take care > of when publishing free books, and that is that the basic unit seems to > be the chapter, and that chapter needs to be self-contained, if our > warning would have been closer to the actual pptp instructions it would > have been included in your manual as well. Agreed. Robust copyability. Cheers, -- Julian Oliver http://julianoliver.com http://criticalengineering.org -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
