Booksellers’ Choice: Minding Your Business

Four specialist booksellers choose the best of the forthcoming or recently published business and computer titles

  • James Lake, Sean Pratley, Martin Cox, and Andrew Duffield
  • Bookseller
  • October 24, 2003

Excerpt

Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly about Security in an Uncertain World
Bruce Schneier

One of the world’s foremost security experts and author of Applied Cryptography an d Secrets and Lies confronts (in terms that the general reader can easily digest) a series of current computer security topics including why national ID cards are a technically unsound, even dangerous idea; why buying online is actually safe; and why we should not invest in biometrics-based scanners for airports.

Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.