Trust in Computer Systems and the Cloud

Acknowledgements

First, family: to Catherine, Josephine, and Miriam for being supportive and long-suffering; to my parents, without whom I wouldn't be writing this; to my parents-in-law, without whom I wouldn't have a wife and kids; and to my brother and sister, who feature at the beginning of this book—I would trust you with my life.

Second, work and education: Steve Watt of Red Hat, who encouraged me; and Jen Huger (also of Red Hat), who provided great advice and opportunities to trial some of the material on Opensource.com. Richard D'Silva, who ran the computers at Bryanston; and the redoubtable Mrs Macquarrie (Jenny), who encouraged me from an even earlier age. Andrew Herbert and Chris Phoenix deserve a mention for hiring me when I didn't really know how to program and giving me space to learn. Peter Landrock, Ross Anderson, and Stephe Walli have also provided formative guidance at times, even if they never knew it.

Friends and colleagues on projects I care about, and who have been important to this book's creation, include Nathaniel McCallum and the entire Enarx team, Michael Bilca (whose advice I should have taken with relation to crypto-currency around a decade ago), and Aeva Black, who has contributed invaluable technical editing input and beyond (remaining errors are mine).

People who have had an immense formative on my leisure life, but whom I've never met, include (in alphabetical order by surname) David Braben, William Gibson, Anne McCaffrey, Sid Meier, Melissa ...