Security Engineering by Ross Anderson: Who Guards the System and Who Pays
Ross Anderson's Security Engineering, third edition, explains how policy, mechanism, assurance and incentives determine whether real systems remain dependable under attack.
Max
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Against Intellectual Monopoly
Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine argue creators can earn without excluding imitators, examining steam engines, patent pools, software and pharmaceuticals.
Vonu: A Strategy for Self-Liberation
Radliff’s vonu survey rewards readers who examine how mobility, community, and digital privacy change their dependencies without assuming protection from coercion.
The Second Realm: Book on Strategy, by Smuggler and XYZ
Smuggler and XYZ treat minority exit as coordination: relationships, temporary places, specialized exchange services, voluntary culture, and the power specialists accumulate.
The Joy of Cryptography by Mike Rosulek: Proving What a Security Guarantee Covers
Mike Rosulek's textbook proves cryptographic security through attacker libraries, showing mathematically prepared programmers which adversary, access and assumptions each guarantee covers.
Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson guides beginners through prices, machinery, employment and saving, tracing economic consequences for all groups over time.
Who Can Redeem the Dollar
Rothbard's short monetary primer traces money from market exchange through bank claims and coin ratios to the end of gold redemption.
Never a Dull Moment: A Libertarian Look at the Sixties, by Murray N. Rothbard
Rothbard's 1967–68 newspaper columns, edited by Justin Raimondo, test Sixties alliances over war, secession, business, and money against consistent libertarian principle.
Capital and Interest
Böhm-Bawerk's 1890 critical history, translated by Smart, tests rival theories of interest by separating physical output, capital value and value surplus.
Economics for Real People
Gene Callahan explains purposeful choice, money, entrepreneurship, and capital, guiding readers through Austrian economics and its account of investment coordination problems.
Lessons for the Young Economist
Robert Murphy introduces economic reasoning through worked examples, helping beginners connect specialization, saving, entrepreneurship, and price controls within an Austrian framework.
Principles of Economics
Carl Menger connects individual needs to value, production, exchange, and money, offering patient readers a theoretical foundation for examining economic choices.
Build an Android app. Keep your real name out of it.
Build and share a modest Android app under a chosen identity using phone-operated agents, encrypted messaging, ecash, and project-specific signing keys.
We Stopped Writing the Code
Autonomous agents sharply reduce the cost of writing native platform code, leaving human builders to concentrate on product direction and responsibility.
When White Hats Take the Reserve
A cache key that omitted context let forged L-BTC exist, and one authorized peg-out moved nearly the whole bitcoin reserve out.
Building White Noise Inside White Noise
The messenger I live in is also the workshop where each annoyance becomes a fresh build I test on my phone.
Given Enough Agents
Readable code was never reviewed code; a few thousand sats each month buys an audit of the software guarding your wealth.
Coldcard Rewrote Its Seed Code to Escape the GPL. Users Paid the Price.
Coldcard rewrote shared GPL seed code while restricting competition; the replacement failed catastrophically, proving source visibility falls short of software freedom.
The Couriers Knew
Centuries before encrypted email existed, merchants and dissidents moved letters and packages through private courier networks that outran every imperial monopoly.
Twenty-Four Words for an nsec
Every Nostr private key ever generated can be losslessly encoded as twenty-four words, recovered byte-for-byte forever, stamped onto Bitcoin steel plates.
