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Introduction
is book is only worth writing because of the nature of human beings
and the fact that we will continue to commit acts of deception and
aggression against each other for at least the foreseeable future.
e main driver behind the undeniable spike in malevolent activity
on the public Internet during the past few years has of course been
economic. One could be forgiven for thinking that greed is interwo-
ven into our DNA, so I am not sure that I can say that I would prefer
a world without greed because that world is a hard one to picture. A
world without human greed is a way dierent world.
Without greed, there would be no raison d’être for a book such as
this one, or any other security books, or indeed security itself. So just