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August 30, 2006

"Security Engineering" available for download

Skinflints of the world rejoice; Ross Anderson's textbook Security Engineering is now available for free download:

My book on Security Engineering is now available online for free download here.

I have two main reasons. First, I want to reach the widest possible audience, especially among poor students. Second, I am a pragmatic libertarian on free culture and free software issues; […]

I’d been discussing this with my publishers for a while. They have been persuaded by the experience of authors like David MacKay, who found that putting his excellent book on coding theory online actually helped its sales. […]

(Via Light Blue Touchpaper.)

Posted by Ian at August 30, 2006 9:53 AM

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