Our Reading List

Several of you asked us to list the books we read from when we lead discussions. These are the ones we've used in 
class, plus a few of our favorites. Tom chose some, and Matt chose the rest. In any case, we both recommend these.

…	Saul Alinsky, Reveille for Radicals, Vintage Books
The classic analysis of organization for social improvement. Many of the techniques Alinsky discusses can be 
adapted to attacking systems-or defending them.

…	Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals, Vintage Books
How the Have-Nots can organize to change society. Like Alinsky's other book, the rules are applicable to com-
puter security.

…	James Bamford, The Puzzle Palace, Viking Press
A book on the history of the NSA.

…	Alfred Bested, The Demolished Man, Vintage Books
The struggle between the killer Ben Reich, the 24th century's richest man, and Lincoln Powell, the police prefect 
with ESP, is like a cat-and-mouse game between an attacker and computer security folks. This classic science fic-
tion book won the first Hugo for Best Novel.

…	John Brunner, The Shockwave Rider, Ballantine Books
A science fiction novel about a future in which data about everyone is stored in a ubiquitous information net-
work. Many of the terms used with malicious logic, such as virus, were first used here.

…	James Burton, The Pentagon Wars, United States Naval Institute
A study of how a group of reformers tried to test and improve some weaponry, and what happened. A wonderful 
and eye-opening description of bureaucratic in-fighting.

…	Dorothy Denning, Information Warfare and Security, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company
Good background on issues we discussed in class, nice presentation.  Mentions some Matt Bishop guy.

…	Garfinkel, Spafford, Practical UNIX and Internet Security, O'Reilly and Associates
An excellent book on UNIX security.

…	Jean Guisnel, Cyberwars: Espionage on the Internet, Plenum Press
Written by a Frenchman, so an interesting non-US perspective.

…	Charlie Kaufman, Radia Perlman, Mike Speciner, Network Security: Private Communications in a Public World, 
Prentice-Hall Publishing Company
Excellent examples of DES and I think probably the most readable textbook I've found on the subject, without 
skimping too terribly much on details.  I like their treatment of the subject matter a lot.

…	NiccolΪ Machiavelli, The Prince, Penguin Books
Its study of rulers applies not only to princes, but also to organizations and environments in general.

…	Eric Frank Russell, Wasp, Tor Books
A science fiction novel in which a lone agent is dropped on an enemy planet. His job: cause chaos.

…	Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon, Avon Books
Good discussion of World War II cryptography, and real world/wartime issues involving security of communica-
tions, etc.  Great mathematical perspective.

…	Neal Stephenson,Snow Crash, Spectra Books
Okay, this one's more marginally computer security related, but it has a virtual reality interface figuring promi-
nently into the plot, and deals with issues of networking through metaphor.

…	Sun Tzu, The Art of War, Delta
A classic text on warfare, many of its principles can be translated into cyberwarfare.

…	Vernor Vinge, Fire Upon the Deep, Tor Books
Superb science fiction book with computer security applications.

…	Vernor Vinge, True Names, Tor Books
First real cyberpunk book; Gibson got credit for this sort of work.