A Vulnerable System: The History of Information Security in the Computer Age by Andrew Stewart (review).
I A Vulnerable System i challenges this obsession, showing that many of the vulnerabilities that concern security practitioners today have a much longer history. Stewart also states that the crash would "shift the focus from short-termism back to fundamentals" (p. 77), thereby pivoting to the next c...
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