Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction: Three Stigmata 1
4. 1. A “New Dimension” for the Security of Information 5
5. 2. The Promise, Success, and Failure of the Early Researchers 13
6. 3. The Creation of the Internet and the Web, and a Dark Portent 32
7. 4. The Dot-Com Boom and the Genesis of a Lucrative Feedback Loop 55
8. 5. Software Security and the “Hamster Wheel of Pain” 78
9. 6. Usable Security, Economics, and Psychology 100
10. 7. Vulnerability Disclosure, Bounties, and Markets 127
11. 8. Data Breaches, Nation-State Hacking, and Epistemic Closure 152
12. 9. The Wicked Nature of Information Security 176
13. Epilogue: The Past, Present, and a Possible Future 200
14. Acknowledgments 205
15. Notes 207
16. Select Bibliography 283
17. Index 289