Mrs Elbeno bought me Silence On The Wire for my birthday. It’s been a fascinating read. There are tons of interesting things you can do with IP packets, both in the field of passive forensic analysis and for the purposes of active subversion. There are a lot of fascinating lower tech attacks on computer data as well.
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Recent Readings
Making Money by Terry Pratchett. (I seem to have missed Thud!) Old Man’s War by John Scalzi. Heinlein-esque SF that I first heard about at last year’s LA Times Festival of Books. Both quick reads – I finished each one in less than 2 days.
Book sale again
Seems like we just had the last book sale… Saturday was this quarter’s already. Here’s the haul: Infinity One Tunnel in the Sky Goodbye, Mr. Chips Stuart Little Me Digital Fortress Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace Stupid White Men Minerals Dinosaurs Pop-up Book Comprehensive Fortran Programming Say the Magic…
Book sale time again
Last night I got an email from the library mailing list about another book sale this morning. We snagged a lot of books, including many SF paperbacks. Mini-Elbeno also got a ton of new titles. Not many computer titles this time around, but I got a book on python and…