The Master reexamines Pontius Pilate and Jesus, Margarita must decide what she is willing to do for love, and Satan punctures bureaucrats, hypocrites and thieves in Soviet-era Moscow.
Publications
Worth Reading: Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott
A romantic adventure set in the Scottish borderlands and Northern England in 1715. The colorful outlaw and rebel Rob Roy MacGregor steps in to defend Scotland, the underdog and true love.
Happy ASCII Day – 50 years as a standard for federal computing
In March 1968 LBJ designated ASCII as a federal standard to help ensure compatibility among computers, paving the way for a new era of digital communications.
Worth Reading: The Life and Legend of Gene Fowler by H. Allen Smith
Both Gene Fowler and H. Allen Smith were journalists who went everywhere, knew everybody and wrote about all of it. This is Smith’s laugh-out-loud biography of his friend.
NextGov: One Government Tech Advances, Another Risks Total Collapse
This week’s NextGov column focuses on two government technologies following vastly different paths. In the fist, we find Threat Hunting making serious inroads. But a new GAO report says another technology, GPS, is in danger of total collapse.
Worth Reading: The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club is the first and the most Dickensian of Dickens’s novels.
The fight over government access to encrypted data heats up again
As FBI director Wray renews calls for “exceptional access” to encrypted data on personal devices, some crypto experts warn that this would undercut personal security and privacy. The National Academies of Science say policy makers must carefully balance the benefits against the risks.
Worth Reading: Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Neal Stephenson’s masterpiece defies easy categorization—not quite cyberpunk, certainly not science fiction, but much more than an historical novel. If you’re tempted to invest in bitcoins, read this first.
Worth Reading: The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas
The gold standard for swashbuckling adventure. If you haven’t already read it you might have thought that you probably should. You are right.
The Importance of Common Criteria Certified Solutions in Highly Secure Environments
There’s an absence of cybersecurity solutions with Common Criteria certification for network access control (NAC) tools.