OT: best book in years

[N D Efford]

Paul Rubin <http://phr.cx@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> Patrick Useldinger <p.useldinger at myrealbox.com> writes:
>> I am going to stay in hospital for a week or so (nothing serious), and
>> am trying to find a book or two to read there. As I have not come
>> across anything spectacular recently (except Python in a Nutshell), I
>> would like to know what *you* consider to be the best book you have
>> read in the last few years, about Python or IT in general.

> Security Engineering, by Ross Anderson

Yes, read this for its broad-ranging coverage.

Then, being a coder, why not look at the O'Reilly book
"Secure Coding: Principles and Practices", or Viega and McGraw's
"Building Secure Software".  Every C/C++ programmer should be
locked up until they've read these, and Pythoneers will probably
find much that is interesting and useful therein.


Nick