I am going on a trip and my flight is 10 hour long. I was wondering if anyone has good advice on what I should read.
I learned basics of Python while reading a book on a plane about it to look cool and making it seem like I was doing something sick on my computer. So perhaps a book about those things? Can’t recommend a specific book, though. Also, the tag may not be correct (I don’t know what tags exist), so mayhaps check that.
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These are books recommended by Carey Parker of the Firewalls Don’t Stop Dragons podcast. Techlore did an interview with him recently and I’ve been listening to his podcast so I imagine they’re good.
Books
- Privacy is Power by Carissa Véliz – see my review
- Data and Goliath by Bruce Schneier – see my review
- Click Here to Kill Everybody by Bruce Schneier
- No Place to Hide by Glenn Greenwald – see my review
- Spam Nation by Brian Krebs
- Crypto by Steven Levy
- The Code Book by Simon Singh
He’s also got his own book if you want to check that out.
Firewalls Don’t Stop Dragons (4th Edition)
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Yeah I’m going to get that same book, saw thecl interview and he seems ok to me.
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I am reading Privacy is power currently, really interesting. Also about tech I would recomend The big nine. And if you want some fiction go for 11/22/63
Currently working on Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff. It’s a good 10 hour flight book, something like 500 pages of content before all the notes and indices.
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It gets refered a lor on Privacy is power, might be my next read.