Dictionary of Information Security

Appendix B

The Lagos Creeper Box

Stealing the Network: How to Own a Continent is fiction

(more a series of short stories or scenarios than a novel), but the

authors intend the book to be taken as a serious addition to secu-

rity literature. In Chapter 2 the technical aspects are fairly

detailed and suitably realistic. (I can personally vouch for the fact

that the description of the physical attributes of that specific hotel

are bang on, although the ... umm ... social amenities

are not.)

As with any volume where multiple authors work on separate

chapters, the quality of the writing varies. Overall, most of the

book is readable as fiction, although it may not qualify as thriller

level plotting.

This book is certainly interesting enough (albeit rather dis- ...