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Geekonomics: The Real Cost of Insecure Software
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Geekonomics: The Real Cost of Insecure Software

by David Rice
November 2007
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
9h 46m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Preface

You may or may not have an inkling of what insecure software is, how it impacts your life, or why you should be concerned. That is OK. This book attempts to introduce you to the full scope and consequence of software’s impact on modern society without baffling the reader with jargon only experts understand or minutia only experts care about. The prerequisite for this book is merely a hint of curiosity.

Although we interact with software on a daily basis, carry it on our mobile phones, drive with it in our cars, fly with it in our planes, and use it in our home and business computers, software itself remains essentially shrouded—a ghost in the machine; a mystery that functions but only part of the time. And therein lies our problem.

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