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- Security Engineering — The Book: the updated Ross Anderson’s masterpiece, for free again!
- The Fundamental Goal of “Provable Security”: Dan Bernstein’s insights on the whole provable security trend.
- Lucky Thirteen — Breaking the TLS and DTLS Record Protocols: yet another breach in the wall of the messy SSL/TLS protocol suite.
- Inception: a cheaper way to obtain passwords from RAM than Elcomsoft Forensic Disk Decryptor.
- 7 Codes You’ll Never Ever Break: classic ciphers that never die.
- [amazon_link id=“0596007868” target=“_blank” ]The Art of Project Management[/amazon_link]. Wise insights are exceptionally uncommon. Practical guidance is plentiful, but all equally inconsequential. And wise and practical musings, rarer still: except within this book, a unique gem in a category of books that shines by its mediocrity. Well-thought and balanced in its theme choice, it covers every topic necessary to thrive in the always difficult to define role of project manager within a big software enterprise: for a better reading, a good exercise is to tweak every moral lesson offered in each section to the different contexts, scales and perspectives that could arise in other settings.
- [amazon_link id=“0470560452” target=“_blank” ]One Strategy: Strategy, Planning and Decision Making[/amazon_link]. Project management is only side of the coin. Since software is by definition so malleable, projects can get as complex as desired, with no end in sight. Their success depends on the proper alignment of multiple tasks and roles: product design and planning, development, testing and usability, among others. All these must integrate into a single common vision, with no holes nor voids for coherence to emerge; quoting Heraclitus: “The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony”. This book recounts the strategy and roadmap of Windows 7, a titanic effort with little or none equivalent in the software industry: as technical as a success case can get, this book is a must to understand the current Microsoft organization.