Geekonomics by David Rice
Geekonomics: The Real Cost of Insecure Software
Geekonomics was a finalist in the running for a prestigous Jolt Award, and not terribly expensive (coming in @ MSRP $30 and less than that most places), so I jumped on it. The case for this book in my mind is that it really speaks to the ideas of reaping what you create incentive for. The book explores EULAs, Open Source, cement, car crashes and plane wrecks.
It's a decent book, but toward the end I started to lose interest in a big way. The book fills a very strange space. It's not technical enough to hold an ubergeek for the duration and I'm not convinced that there are many everyday IT folks that will rush to pick it up either. That said, if such a person was motivated to head that way it would hit the mark perfectly.
Rice is certainly credible and some of the information included on the government funded Coverity project was refreshingly delivered. Other than that, it's bedtime reading in the traditional sense.
From the book: "Contrary to Al Gore's statement about the internet being the 'Information Super Highway', the Internet is more like a 1920's two-lane farm road built by local-yokels -- and about as safe."
