Stephenson delights in explaining how all of these things go together. The author, Neal Stephenson, describes a story that is set around the intersection between the discovery of world-changing math insights and the incipient designs of our computer science founding fathers. To me, Cryptonomicon is the quintessential hacker novel. I said during the introduction to this series that I wouldn’t focus purely on technical literature, or even just nonfiction, for that matter.
I love a good argument, so feel free to let me know what you think. I’ll be presenting on this topic at RSA 2014, and between now and then, I’d like to discuss a few of my early candidates for inclusion. For the past decade, I have had this notion that there must be a Cybersecurity Canon: a list of must-read books where the content is timeless, genuinely represents an aspect of the community that is true and precise and that, if not read, leaves a hole in cybersecurity professional’s education.
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