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For anyone working in - or interested in - threat intelligence this is an absolute must read. This book, written by founder Eilot Higgins, shares the story of Bellingcat’s creation and the ways in which Higgins and other researchers use open-sourced intelligence in their investigations. DeibertĪn international research collective, Bellingcat has made significant contributions to ongoing investigations against threat actors. Reset: Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society, by Ronald J. This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race, by Nicole Perlroth We Are Bellingcat: Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News, by Eliot Higgins For that, I give you the massively reference-able "The Design of Everyday Things" - it'll keep you from taking many things you interact with for granted and maybe help you think a bit differently on how you move through the world. Sometimes judicious over-engineering of some solutions while still being an elegant design is wholly underrated in tech and other spheres. It's sometimes better to, as to take one of my talks, not just meet the waterline on design requirements, but to get to a point where you can float above and not be drowning if there's a failure. Not only did I not have to sit on it gingerly like the other students, but I could get on top of it (with my obese weight at the time) and stand without it moving or collapsing. I know my classmates really tried to make super beautiful and sleek stools/chairs, but for me, my "wow" moment was removing the core support and using a hidden beam system to support the seat out to thin pillars.
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I personally was berated by my industrial design professor for building an inelegant solution to the challenge, but given the rules, and desired outcomes, I not only met but exceeded the design requirements.
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People often complain why things are "so shitty" and it goes back to the struggle of "form over function" in many cases at the design level. The latter came out far after graduation, but is a good continuation of the "tales of woe". Plus, at the policy level, never underestimate humans and the ways they can get themselves into unplanned scenarios. The advantages of these "tales of peril" work well for security practitioners to not immediately dismiss "black swan" or "edge cases" when modeling threats or designing systems and solutions. Some of our textbooks included these in the syllabus, and they really, still to this day, inform how I look at problems and challenges, and how humans interact with them to arrive at a solution. While not a major option at the time, I graduated and became a user interface designer for Xerox in Rochester, NY. At the time I was also doing a short work study at the HCII at Carnegie Mellon and really got interested in UX/HCI/UI.
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while I started out my degree as a computer engineer, I switched majors because I didn't want to be designing chips the rest of my life and wanted something more "applied". The Design of Everyday Things, by Don Norman The Atomic Chef: And Other True Tales of Design, Technology, and Human Error, By Steven Casey Set Phasers on Stun: And Other True Tales of Design, Technology, and Human Error, by Steven Casey We've asked some of our friends and colleagues to recommend a favorite book, new or old, fiction or non-fiction, to help give you a few good options. As the year comes to a close, we hope you will have some well-deserved time off to rest and maybe catch up on some reading.