LWN: Comments on "Ross Anderson's Security Engineering book downloadable"

More books like this?

shapr — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 11:53:54 +0000

Thanks, this is great! I found several good books that I've copied onto to my Nokia 770.

More books like this?

barbara — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 18:31:39 +0000

On my Loads of Linux Links website I have a section on books (mostly
online) related to Linux and Open Source.

Check out:
http://loll.sourceforge.net/linux/links/Documentation/Pub...

More books like this?

shapr — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 18:04:16 +0000

Could anyone point me to more high quality tech books like this that are available in PS, PDF, or HTML format?
I have regular chunks of commute time and a Nokia 770 that's decent for reading electronic texts.

Ross Anderson's Security Engineering book downloadable

cowbutt — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 07:15:09 +0000

Excellent book! Probably the only *textbook* that I've read cover-to-cover (oh, OK, I skimmed over the maths in the crypto chapter!).

Ross Anderson's Security Engineering book downloadable

JoeF — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 23:05:22 +0000

PDFs are great for grepping and looking up short sections, but the dead tree version is better for serious reading and thinking and curling-up-with.

Yup. While I have access to a bunch of books online, e.g., O'Reilly books, I almost always buy a dead tree copy if I do anything serious. You can't really add comments in a PDF file, and printing the PDfs isn't really going to save any money.
Tech book publishers seem to start to get that making books available online is a good thing.

Ross Anderson's Security Engineering book downloadable

zooko — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 19:19:18 +0000

I do like this book. If you are serious about security engineering, it is well worth it to buy the dead tree version. PDFs are great for grepping and looking up short sections, but the dead tree version is better for serious reading and thinking and curling-up-with.