Controlling Voices: Intellectual Property, Humanistic Studies, and the Internet
TyAnna K. Herrington explains current intellectual property law and examines the effect of the Internet and ideological power on its interpretation. Promoting a balanced development of our national culture, she advocates educators' informed participation in ensuring egalitarian public access to information. She discusses the control of information and the creation of knowledge in terms of the way control functions under current property law.
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Paperback: 208 pages (March 2001) (Also available in Hardcover)
Language: English
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press; ISBN: 0809323737
Turing's Man: Western Culture in the Computer Age
A classics professor who also holds a master's degree in computer science, J.David Bolter considers the cultural impact of computers on our age, comparing the computer to earlier technologies that redefined fundamental notions of time, space, language, memory, and human creativity. Surprisingly, he finds that in many ways the outlook of the computer age bears more resemblance to that of the ancient world than to that of the Enlightenment. The classical philosopher and the computer programmer share a suspicion of infinity, an acceptance of necessary limitations on human achievement, and a belief that results are more important than motives. Although Bolter fears that the growing use of computers may well diminish our culture's sense of the historical and intellectual context of human endeavor, he contends that the computer also offers new ways of looking at intellectual freedom, creativity, and the conservation of precious resources.
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Paperback: 264 pages (April 1984)
Language: English
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press; ISBN: 0807841080
Fundamentals of Wearable Computers and Augumented Reality
Introduces the concepts, challenges, and technologies underlying the blending of humans with machines through computers, communications, and human-computer interfaces. Many of the 25 chapters deal with applications in the fields of medicine and health care, and developments in image registration. Other topics include localization of virtual objects in the near visual field, augmented reality for exterior construction applications, Boeing's wire bundle assembly project, computational clothing and accessories, tactual displays for sensory substitution, military applications, and computer networks for wearable computing.
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Paperback: 728 pages (November 2000)
Language: English
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates; ISBN: 0805829024
Know Your Enemy: Revealing the Security Tools, Tactics, and Motives of the Blackhat Community with CDROM
Blackhats are the term here for what some call hackers: anyone attempting to use Internet technology for illegal, destructive, or unauthorized activity. The two-year Honeynet Project involved a collection of production systems designed to be compromised, and to record each step of the probe, attack, and compromise. Project members share what they learned about how such people behave. Readers are not expected to have a technical background. The disk contains examples of network traces, code, system binaries, and logs used by intruders.
About the Author: The Honeynet Project is a group of thirty security professionals dedicated to learning the tools, tactics, and motives of blackhats and sharing those lessions learned. Each individual in the group has unique skills, experiences, and backgrounds that contribute to the project.
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Paperback: 328 pages 1 edition (August 31, 2001)
Language: English
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; ISBN: 0201746131
Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions with CDROM
A lot of computer-security textbooks approach the subject from a defensive point of view. "Do this, and probably you'll survive a particular kind of attack," they say. In refreshing contrast, Hacking Exposed, Second Edition talks about security from an offensive angle. A Jane's-like catalog of the weaponry that black-hat hackers use is laid out in full. Readers see what programs are out there, get a rundown on what the programs can do, and benefit from detailed explanations of concepts (such as wardialing and rootkits) that most system administrators kind of understand, but perhaps not in detail. The book also walks through how to use the more powerful and popular hacker software, including L0phtCrack. This new edition has been updated extensively, largely with the results of "honeypot" exercises (in which attacks on sacrificial machines are monitored) and Windows 2000 public security trials. There's a lot of new stuff on e-mail worms, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, and attacks that involve routing protocols.
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Paperback: 700 pages 3 edition (September 26, 2001)
Language: English
Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill; ISBN: 0072193816
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