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List:       best-of-security
Subject:    BoS: Practical Unix Security Volume #2
From:       Julian Assange <proff () suburbia ! net>
Date:       1996-05-19 8:51:20
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Garfinkel/Spafford, Practical UNIX and Internet Security, 2nd ed.

  Practical UNIX and Internet Security, Second Edition
  By Simson Garfinkel and Eugene Spafford
  O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1996
  1004 pages.  ISBN: 1-56592-148-8.  $39.95

This book is an extraordinarily successful effort to cram into a mere
thousand pages (971+xxix+ORAads) almost everything you need to know about
Unix and Internet security.  It is a complete rewrite of the First Edition
of 1991, and contains much new material.  In terms of pages per dollar or
cents per page, or much more important, the amount of money it can save you
by keeping you away from a horrendous array of potential security problems,
it is an incredible bargain.  This is a keeper -- at least until the Third
Edition comes out, perhaps in 2001.  By then, the authors will be able to
write much more definitively about Java and web browsers, which are treated
only lightly in the Second Edition.  (Too much happening, too fast?)
Everything else, however, seems well covered and very nicely written.  This
is a very readable and very useful book, and deserves to be looked at by all
of you.

Peter Neumann

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