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Book Review: In A Sunburned Country by Bill Brysoon
**** Recommend itHighly recommend if you are a Bill Bryson fan. Highly recommend if you are considering a trip to Australia. Recommend if you are interested in Australia. I have read a number of Bryson...
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Book Review - Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans by Brian Kilmeade...
*** Liked itRecommend if you like historical battles.Recommend if you have no clue about the War of 1812.Recommend if you don't know much about President Andrew Jackson. I picked up this book because I...
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Book Review: The Burning: Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of...
I hate the the KKK. I know, saying that out loud is not that brave. How can anybody disagree with the notion that, according to the Equal Justice Initiative, this American domestic terrorist...
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Book Review: Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan
**** Recommend itWhen it first came out in 2013, this book took a lot of heat from religious scholars that did not agree with Reza Aslan’s point of view. I think there were some sour greats too because...
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I put “Black Hills” into my reading queue a while back because I actually grew up in the Black hills and thought it would be an interesting lark to read a novel about my home town. But because I was...
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Book Review: "How Great Science Fiction Works,” by Gary K. Wolfe, Course...
I very much enjoyed Dr. Wolfe’s Great Courses lecture. I have always considered myself to be a science fiction fan, but after listening to these lectures, I learned that there are numerous holes in my...
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Cryptocurrency, Blockchain and Bitcoin: It All Seems So Mysterious
Executive SummaryWhen Satoshi Nakamoto published his seminal paper called Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System in October 2008, he started what is arguably the first viable cryptocurrency....
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2016 Books
I read 28 Books in 2016.2016 favorite:"Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania," by Erik Larson2016 Most Educational:"The Right To Vote The Contested History Of Democracy In The United States,"...
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Book Review: " Go Set a Watchman (2011) by Harper Lee," Book Reviewed by Rick...
Executive SummaryIn Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman, Jean Louise Finch as a young woman discovers that racial tensions in the south are not as black and white as she thought they were when she was a...
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Cybersecurity Canon Candidate Book Review: "Cybercrime and Espionage: An...
Executive SummaryCybercrime and Espionage, published in 2011, is a book that was ahead of its time. The authors were pushing the envelope in terms of how the security community should think about...
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Books You Should Have Read By Now
When I started Terebrate back in January 2010, I always intended it to be a place to put my book reviews on whatever I was reading. Since then, a lot has happened in my professional life. I changed...
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Memorial Day Essay: Reborn at Arlington
1500 US Army soldiers stood on the misty parade field at Fort Meyer waiting for the sun to rise. The leadership had scheduled another morale building yet mandated "fun run" wherein once a quarter, the...
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Should Lawmakers Vote to End the National Security Agency’s Bulk Collection...
Yes — absolutely.Section 215 of the Patriot Act is set to expire on June 1. That provision gives the NSA permission to collect metadata from communications mediums like phone calls. Metadata, in this...
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Book Review: Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's...
Executive SummaryOperation Olympic Games is the US military code name that refers to the first ever act of real cyber warfare. Many journalists have told bits and pieces of the story since the attacks...
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Book Review: Winning as a CISO (2005) by Rich Baich
Executive SummaryThe latest candidate for the cyber security canon is Rich Baich’s Winning as a CISO. The roles of the chief information officer (CIO), the chief security officer (CSO), and the chief...
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Book Review: Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime - from...
Executive SummaryIn Spam Nation, Brian Krebs covers a key portion of our cyber security and cyber crime history: 2007–2013, that period when we started to learn about the Russian Business Network,...
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Book Review: The Practice of Network Security Monitoring: Understanding...
Executive SummaryRichard Bejtlich is one of the most respected security practitioners in the community. If he publishes something, we should all take notice. In The Practice of Network Security...
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Why I Vote
Executive SummaryThis Tuesday, the people of the United States will vote for 36 Senators, 435 Congressional Representatives, 36 State Governors and three Territorial Governors. In order for Republicans...
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Book Review: Lexicon (2013) by Max Barry
Executive SummaryLexicon is an exciting story that is really about social engineering taken to the nth degree. It is not a cyber security canon candidate, however, because it does not meet the criteria...
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Book Review: No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S....
Executive SummaryNo Place to Hide is a strange concoction: part exposé, part autobiography, and part screed “against the man.” It is not what I would call an example of rigorous journalistic reporting....
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