The IEEE Computer Society is one of the major international professional bodies for IT professionals. In an attempt to encourage engineers and security analysts to look at systems from the strangest perspectives, the author offers two examples why this is important: the first comes from the journalistic media the second comes from his group's research in protocol security for wireless ad hoc networking - [Read more]

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