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HN comment orderThis is a great book! After reading it I found it much harder to enjoy movies showing bad security though (such has heists, nuclear anything, ..). E.g. from the book I learned about the IAEA recommendations for safekeeping nuclear material [1], and it's pretty clear that smart people spent some time thinking about the various threats. Anyway, rambling. It's a great and very entertaining book, go read it! [1] https://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Publications/PDF/Pub1481_web.p...
For your convenience wget http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/SEv2-{toc,pref,acks,bi... curl -O http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/SEv2-c[01-27].pdf
Chapter 11 on physical security was great. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/SEv2-c11.pdf How to steal a painting (7) Bruno cuts the telephone line to his rival’s gallery and hides a few hundred yards away in the bushes. He counts the number of men in blue uniforms who arrive and the number who depart. If the two numbers are equal, then it’s a fair guess the custodian has said, ‘Oh bother, we‘ll fix it in the morning’, or words to that effect. He now knows…
chapters for the first book is pdf. I HATE pdf. why can't they be html... sigh bookmarking.
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