On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 5:40 AM, Jay R. Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> 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:
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