Cyber War: The next Threat to National Security and What to Do about It, Richard A. Clarke, Ecco, 2010
Here is the state of Internet security, from the viewpoint of the American Security Czar. The Orange cover is appropriate: the book is meant to alarm American voters. The alarm is justified: white-hats worldwide would do well to keep their systems guarded (patched, monitored, firewalled..). But the author needs to distinguish between war and internet security. Military systems that need to be secure from hackers simply should not be connected to the Internet. Likewise with critical infrastructure such as power grid controls. Internet security then has little to do with war, important as it is. 250 pages, hardcover.
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Delete : the virtue of forgetting in the digital age / Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Princeton University Press, 2009
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Burning the Ships : intellectual property and the transformation of Microsoft / Marshall Phelps, Wiley, 2009
The Inventor’s Bible : how to market and license your brilliant ideas / Ronald Louis Docie, Ten Speed Press, 2010
How to Make Patent Drawings : a patent it yourself companion / by Jack Lo, Nolo, 2007
Wired Shut : copyright and the shape of digital culture / Tarleton Gillespie, MIT Press, 2007