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The Myth of Homeland Security

By: Marcus Ranum

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As I write this, I'm sitting in a restaurant in a major U.S. airport, eating my breakfast with a plastic knife and fork. I worked up quite an appetite getting here two hours early and shuffling in the block-long lines until I got to the security checkpoint where I could take off my shoes, remove my belt, and put my carry-on luggage through the screening system . "What's going on? It's homeland security. Welcome to the new age of knee-jerk security at any price. Well, I've paid, and you've paid, and we'll all keep paying-but is it going to help? Have we embarked on a massive multibillion-dollar boondoggle that's going to do nothing more than make us feel more secure? Are we paying nosebleed prices for "feel-good" measures? . "This book was painful to write. By nature, I am a problem solver. Professionally I have made my career out of solving complex problems efficiently by trying to find the right place to push hard and make a difference. Researching the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, CIA, INS, the PATRIOT Act, and so forth, one falls into a rabbit's hole of interdependent lameness and dysfunction. I came face to face with the realization that there are gigantic bureaucracies that exist primarily for the sole purpose of prolonging their existence, that the very structure of bureaucracy rewards inefficiency and encourages territorialism and turf warfare.

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The Myth of Homeland Security

By: Marcus Ranum

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Dissecting the Hack: The F0rb1dd3n Network, Revised Edition

By: Brian Baskin,Marcus J. Carey,Jayson E Street,Kent Nabors

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Dissecting the Hack: The F0rb1dd3n Network, Revised Edition

By: Brian Baskin,Marcus J. Carey,Jayson E Street,Kent Nabors

Dissecting the Hack: The F0rb1dd3n Network, Revised Edition, deals with hackers and hacking. The book is divided into two parts. The first part, entitled "The F0rb1dd3n Network, tells the fictional story of Bob and Leon, two kids caught up in an adventure where they learn the real-world consequence of digital actions. The second part, "Security Threats Are Real (STAR), focuses on these real-world lessons.The F0rb1dd3n Network can be read as a stand-alone story or as an illustration of the issues described in STAR. Throughout The F0rb1dd3n Network are "Easter eggs—references, hints, phrases, and more that will lead readers to insights into hacker culture. Drawing on The F0rb1dd3n Network, STAR explains the various aspects of reconnaissance; the scanning phase of an attack; the attacker's search for network weaknesses and vulnerabilities to exploit; the various angles of attack used by the characters in the story; basic methods of erasing information and obscuring an attacker's presence on a computer system; and the underlying hacking culture. - Revised edition includes a completely NEW STAR Section (Part 2) - Utilizes actual hacking and security tools in its story- helps to familiarize a newbie with the many devices and their code - Introduces basic hacking techniques in real life context for ease of learning

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Syngress

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1597495697

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Web Security Sourcebook

By: Aviel D. Rubin,Daniel E. Geer, Jr.,Marcus Ranum

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Web Security Sourcebook

By: Aviel D. Rubin,Daniel E. Geer, Jr.,Marcus Ranum

The authors . . . bring wide-ranging experience to this work, moving from theory to hands-on, bit-shoveling practical advice." -Steven M. Bellovin A serious security sourcebook for Web professionals and users. The front door is unlocked and wide open. The alarm's not working and no one's home. All of your valuables, money, and intimate details of your life are just sitting inside, waiting to be taken. No, it's not your house . . . it's your computer. The Web now penetrates every aspect of our lives, from the home PC to the business office. But with each advance in convenience comes a geometric increase in vulnerability to the integrity of data and software as well as to the confidentiality of information. Although the flaws inherent in the Web are real, solutions are available. Let Aviel Rubin, Daniel Geer, and Marcus Ranum give you the answers. Here's a book that's valuable today and indispensable for the future. It includes basic and advanced techniques for client-side and server-side security, browser security, writing secure CGI scripts, firewalls, and secure e-commerce. There's a special appendix that demystifies the complex world of cryptography. And the book comes with access to a dedicated Web site containing up-to-the-minute information on the latest security threats and solutions. So whether you're a Webmaster trying to close the door on sites and applications, or an everyday user hoping to keep your desktop safe, this is your essential source on: * Protecting and securing Web pages, search engines, servers, and browsers * Writing impregnable applets and scripts, and avoiding the dangers inherent in every language * Using (and abusing) firewalls and cryptographic controls * Securing commerce and payment transactions

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Wiley

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047118148X

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Rituals of Childhood

Jewish Acculturation in Medieval Europe

By: Ivan G. Marcus

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Rituals of Childhood

Jewish Acculturation in Medieval Europe

By: Ivan G. Marcus

In medieval times, when a Jewish boy of five began religious schooling, he was carried from home to a teacher and placed on the teacher's lap. He was then asked to recite the Hebrew alphabet and lick honey from the slate on which it was written, to eat magically inscribed cooked peeled eggs and cakes, to recite an incantation against a demon of forgetfulness, and then to go down to the riverbank with the teacher, where he was told that his future study of the Torah, like the rushing river, would never end. This book--Ivan Marcus's erudite and novel interpretation of this rite of passage--presents a new anthropological historical approach to Jewish culture and acculturation in medieval Christian Europe. Marcus traces ancient Jewish and Greco-Roman elements in the rite and then analyzes it from different perspectives, making use of narrative, legal, poetic, ethnographic, and pictorial sources, as well as firsthand accounts. He then describes contemporary medieval Christian images and initiation rites--including the eucharist and the Madonna and child--as contexts within which to understand the ceremony. He is the first to investigate how medieval Jews were aware of, drew upon, and polemically transformed Christian religious symbols into Jewish counterimages in order to affirm the truth of Judaism and to make sense of living as Jews in an intensely Christian culture.

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Yale University Press

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030015674X

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9780300156744

Sub Specie Historiae

Essays in the Manifestation of Historical and Moral Consciousness

By: John T. Marcus

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Sub Specie Historiae

Essays in the Manifestation of Historical and Moral Consciousness

By: John T. Marcus

Consists of a series of related essays that deal with a new approach to historical-mindedness and a new way of understanding the distinguishing characteristics of Western civilization.

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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0838620574

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How the West Became Antisemitic

Jews and the Formation of Europe, 800–1500

By: Ivan G. Marcus

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How the West Became Antisemitic

Jews and the Formation of Europe, 800–1500

By: Ivan G. Marcus

An examination of how the Jews—real and imagined—so challenged the Christian majority in medieval Europe that it became a society that was religiously and culturally antisemitic in new ways In medieval Europe, Jews were not passive victims of the Christian community, as is often assumed, but rather were startlingly assertive, forming a Jewish civilization within Latin Christian society. Both Jews and Christians considered themselves to be God’s chosen people. These dueling claims fueled the rise of both cultures as they became rivals for supremacy. In How the West Became Antisemitic, Ivan Marcus shows how Christian and Jewish competition in medieval Europe laid the foundation for modern antisemitism. Marcus explains that Jews accepted Christians as misguided practitioners of their ancestral customs, but regarded Christianity as idolatry. Christians, on the other hand, looked at Jews themselves—not Judaism—as despised. They directed their hatred at a real and imagined Jew: theoretically subordinate, but sometimes assertive, an implacable “enemy within.” In their view, Jews were permanently and physically Jewish—impossible to convert to Christianity. Thus Christians came to hate Jews first for religious reasons, and eventually for racial ones. Even when Jews no longer lived among them, medieval Christians could not forget their former neighbors. Modern antisemitism, based on the imagined Jew as powerful and world dominating, is a transformation of this medieval hatred. A sweeping and well-documented history of the rivalry between Jewish and Christian civilizations during the making of Europe, How the West Became Antisemitic is an ambitious new interpretation of the medieval world and its impact on modernity.

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Princeton University Press

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069125821X

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9780691258218

The Complete Works of Marcus Tullius Cicero

By: Marcus Tullius Cicero

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The Complete Works of Marcus Tullius Cicero

By: Marcus Tullius Cicero

Translated from the English of Conyers Middleton.

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Рипол Классик

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5875278129

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9785875278129

The Jewish Life Cycle

Rites of Passage from Biblical to Modern Times

By: Ivan G. Marcus

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The Jewish Life Cycle

Rites of Passage from Biblical to Modern Times

By: Ivan G. Marcus

In this original and sweeping review of Jewish culture and history, Ivan Marcus examines how and why various rites and customs celebrating stages in the life cycle have evolved through the ages and persisted to this day. For each phase of life--from childhood and adolescence to adulthood and the advanced years—the book traces the origin and development of specific rites associated with the events of birth, circumcision, and schooling; bar and bat mitzvah and confirmation; engagement, betrothal, and marriage; and aging, dying, and remembering. Customs in Jewish tradition, such as the presence of godparents at a circumcision, the use of a four-poled canopy at a wedding, and the placing of small stones on tombstones, are discussed. In each chapter, detailed descriptions walk the reader through such ceremonies as early modern and contemporary circumcision, weddings, and funerals. In a comparative framework, Marcus illustrates how Jewish culture has negotiated with the majority cultures of the ancient Near East, Greco-Roman antiquity, medieval European Christianity, and Mediterranean Islam, as well as with modern secular and religious movements and social trends, to renew itself through ritual innovation. In his extensive research on the Jewish life cycle, Marcus draws from documents on various customs and ritual practices, offering reassessments of original sources and scholarly literature. Marcus’s survey is the first comprehensive study of the rites of the Jewish life cycle since Hayyim Schauss's The Lifetime of the Jew was published in 1950, written for Jewish readers. Marcus’s book addresses a broader audience and is designed to appeal to scholars and interested readers.

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University of Washington Press

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0295803924

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Designing Wide Area Networks and Internetworks

A Practical Guide

By: J. Scott Marcus

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Designing Wide Area Networks and Internetworks

A Practical Guide

By: J. Scott Marcus

&Quot;Designing Wide Area Networks and Internetworks clarifies this complex task by outlining a top-down, step-by-step process for constructing a WAN or internetwork that is effective for your organization. This book will guide you through the steps of determining requirements, designing the network structure, choosing appropriate technologies, and evaluating results. The author's practical approach distills exactly what you need to know about networking theory and technological background in order to accomplish a given task."--BOOK JACKET.

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Addison-Wesley Professional

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0201695847

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Web Security Sourcebook

By: Aviel D. Rubin,Daniel E. Geer, Jr.,Marcus Ranum

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Web Security Sourcebook

By: Aviel D. Rubin,Daniel E. Geer, Jr.,Marcus Ranum

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The Myth of Homeland Security

The Myth of Homeland Security

The Myth of Homeland Security

The Myth of Homeland Security

Dissecting the Hack: The F0rb1dd3n Network, Revised Edition

Dissecting the Hack: The F0rb1dd3n Network, Revised Edition

Web Security Sourcebook

Web Security Sourcebook

Rituals of Childhood

Rituals of Childhood

Sub Specie Historiae

Sub Specie Historiae

How the West Became Antisemitic

How the West Became Antisemitic

The Complete Works of Marcus Tullius Cicero

The Complete Works of Marcus Tullius Cicero

The Jewish Life Cycle

The Jewish Life Cycle

Designing Wide Area Networks and Internetworks

Designing Wide Area Networks and Internetworks

Web Security Sourcebook

Web Security Sourcebook

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