reverse engineer this book

Slashdot is reporting that Ross Anderson's Security Engineering is now available for free online:

"Security Engineering" Is Now Online (slashdot.org)

Here's the home page:

www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/book.html

This is the book that helped inspire mushpup. Chapter 3 should be required reading for anyone using a password and mushpup tries to address the issues raised in Section 3.2.3: Difficulties with Remembering the Password.

Of course, if you have a philosophical objection to free, you can always buy it from Amazon:

amazon link