On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 5:40 AM, Jay R. Ashworth <[email protected]> wrote: > Let me be, apparently, the first to extend congratulations to long time > NANOGer, Columbia CS professor, security researcher, and co-inventor of > Usenet -- does anybody remember Usenet? :-) -- Steven M. Bellovin, who, > it was announced yesterday, has become the first actual, y'know, technical > person appointed to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, the > White House organization formed over a decade ago to oversee the NSA in > light of its bulk data collection activities WRT US citizens.
Hear, hear! [snip] > Steve's latest book is the second edition of _Firewalls And Internet Security: > Repelling the Wily Hacker_; more info including links to buy are here: > > http://www.wilyhacker.com/ > > For poor but smart people, note that there's a link there to the full text of > the > first edition; while much of it has been overrun by events, there's still a > lot of > good material there. Minor correction: Steve's latest book is _Thinking Security_ (Nov 2015). Pretty great so far. Royce
