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| Srijith K. Nair is a senior security researcher at the Security Futures Practice of BT Innovate & Design, where he looks at security and privacy issues associated with cloud computing and system virtualisation. He has a PhD in computer science from Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. There, his work on distributed policy enforcement was supervised by Andrew S. Tanenbaum and Bruno Crispo. His other research interests include applied cryptography and general security and networking issues. He haspublished papers in several IEEE and ACM conference proceedings volumes. Srijith received his MS degree in computer science from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2002, where he focused on the area of TCP congestion algorithms. He received his BTech (Electrical and Electronics Engineering) degree (with first class honors) from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 2000, under the Singapore Airlines-Neptune Orient Lines (SIA/NOL) undergraduate scholarship program. Before starting on his PhD quest, Srijith worked as a research and development engineer at JVC Asia Laboratories of Singapore (JALS) for a year, looking into digital video broadcasting multimedia home platform (DVB-MHP) issues. Born and having spent most of his childhood in the beautiful tropical state of Kerala, India, Srijith finds the summer heat and winter snow of Europe amazing, and considers Europe a great travel paradise. Srijith is member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and the ElectronicFrontier Foundation (EFF). |
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The Net delusion: the dark side of Internet freedom Morozov E., Perseus Books, Cambridge, MA, 2011. 432 pp. Type: Book (978-1-586488-74-1)
Evgeny Morozov, a journalist and social commentator, has written an important book on a topic that is on the mind of almost every technologically inclined social scientist: the power of the Internet to shape society, and the Internet&a...
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Nov 4 2011 |
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The future of the Internet--and how to stop it Zittrain J., Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2008. 352 pp. Type: Book (9780300124873), Reviews: (1 of 2)
Zittrain, a professor of Internet governance and regulation at Oxford University, has written a timely book: it looks at the state of the Internet as it is right now, as well as its potential to become, surprisingly enough, a closed sy...
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Sep 8 2008 |
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Computer science reconsidered: the invocation model of process expression (Pocket Your Problems) Fant K., Wiley-Interscience, 2007. 269 pp. Type: Book (9780471798149), Reviews: (1 of 2)
In his own words, Fant’s book can be summarized as a work that “provides the theoretical derivation for NULL Convention Logic, which was presented in my previous book” [1]....
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Play money: or, how I quit my day job and made millions trading virtual loot Dibbell J., Basic Books, Inc., New York, NY, 2006. 321 pp. Type: Book (9780465015351)
Have you ever wondered about the virtual worlds that seem to be popping up all around us? Completely invisible to the ignorant, yet omnipresent to the insiders, virtual worlds are no longer a figment of science fiction. There are many ...
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Apr 27 2007 |
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The wisdom of crowds Surowiecki J., Anchor, New York, NY, 2005. 336 pp. Type: Book (9780385721707), Reviews: (2 of 2)
Surowiecki’s now-famous book examines one central question: Is a group “smarter than the smartest people in [it]?” If Surowiecki’s claim is to be believed, the crowd is indeed sma...
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Jul 7 2006 |
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Security and usability Cranor L., Garfinkel S., O’Reilly Media, Inc., Sebastopol, CA, 2005. 714 pp. Type: Book (9780596008277)
From previous experience, every time I decide to review a book that is a collection of papers, I am prepared to be disappointed. However, this collection pleasantly surprised me, not just with the quality and the coverage of the papers...
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Jul 6 2006 |
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The art of computer virus research and defense Szor P., Addison-Wesley Professional, Boston, MA, 2005. 744 pp. Type: Book (9780321304544), Reviews: (2 of 2)
When someone as knowledgeable about computer viruses as Symantec’s chief antivirus researcher writes a book on the subject, it is expected that the resulting work will be authoritative; Peter Szor’s work is that and...
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Jun 21 2006 |
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The best software writing I: selected and introduced by Joel Spolsky Spolsky J., APress, LP, Berkeley, CA, 2005. 328 pp. Type: Book (9781590595008), Reviews: (1 of 2)
This book is a collection of material, mainly short articles, but also cartoons and conference keynotes, that revolves around the theme of programming and software project management. Selected and introduced by Joel Spolsky, an influen...
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Sep 8 2005 |
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Network security hacks Lockhart A., O’Reilly & Associates, Inc., Sebastopol, CA, 2004. Type: Book (9780596006433)
To begin with, I’d like to offer a word of advice to prospective readers: if you are considering reading this book as a means of finding out easy ways to penetrate a system or network, this is not the book for you. This b...
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Jun 9 2005 |
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Secrets and lies: digital security in a networked world Schneier B., John Wiley & Sons, 2004. Type: Book (9780471453802)
“Security is a process, not a product.” If one sentence could sum up the content of this book, this would be it. Bruce Schneier, the author of the popular book Applied cryptography [1], takes a U-turn in his ...
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Feb 2 2005 |
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