---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 09:25:34 -0800 From: "Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], funsec@linuxbox.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [techbooks] REVIEW: "Kim", Rudyard Kipling
BKKIM.RVW 20061124 "Kim", Rudyard Kipling, 1901, 0-812-56575-4 %A Rudyard Kipling %C 49 West 24th Street, or 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010 %D 1901 (no, it isn't a Y2K joke) %G 0-812-56575-4 %I Tor Books/Tom Doherty Assoc. %O [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.tor.com %O http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0812565754/robsladesinterne http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0812565754/robsladesinte-21 %O http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0812565754/robsladesin03-20 %O Audience n+ Tech 3 Writing 3 (see revfaq.htm for explanation) %P 307 p. %T "Kim" Kipling packed a great deal of information and concept into his stories, and in "Kim" we find The Great Game: espionage and spying. Within the first twenty pages we have authentication by something you have, denial of service, impersonation, stealth, masquerade, role- based authorization (with ad hoc authentication by something you know), eavesdropping, and trust based on data integrity. Later on we get contingency planning against theft and cryptography with key changes. Beyond all this, and repeatedly throughout the story, we have social engineering: misdirection, analysis of situations and characters, the maneuvering and manipulating of people so that they do what you want, all the while thinking that it was their idea. The explanation given is at once subtle and lucid, and is both more useful and much more entertaining than that given by Mitnick in "The Art of Deception" (cf. BKARTDCP.RVW). Kipling is, perhaps, too gentle a writer for the thriller genre. He is, though, a better wordsmith than most of those who work in that idiom. His command of dialogue is unparalleled: in "Kim" there is no need to identify the individual speakers, for they are as instantly distinguished in the text as they would be by speech. I heartily recommend "Kim" to anyone in the security field, or anyone who wants a decent read. copyright Robert M. Slade, 2006 BKKIM.RVW 20061124 Merry Christmas ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes. - Mel Brooks Dictionary of Information Security www.syngress.com/catalog/?pid=4150 http://victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm