[SGVLUG] Highly recommended good read

[Dan Kegel]

shadowcat8 at excite.com <shadowcat8 at excite.com> wrote:
> "Zero Day" by Mark Russinovich (http://www.zerodaythebook.com/)
>
> A little background:
> Mark Russinovich was a top-notch Windows (code-)hacker, porting many of the diagnostic and administration utilities we already enjoy in linux to the Windows platform as well as creating a few new ones for the Windows paradigm.  With Bryce Cogswell, he founded Sysinternals, the company that they were marketing and distributing the utilities through until Microsoft found and purchased them in 2006.  While working at Microsoft, he kept having his own misgivings about the way computer security is generally handled by the majority of users, and wrote this book to at least get his concerns out.

Somewhat along the same lines, see
"The Daemon" by Daniel Suarez (http://thedaemon.com/ )

And what the heck,
"A Fire Upon The Deep" by Vernor Vince
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fire_Upon_the_Deep )

I enjoyed both greatly.