This week I finished Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov and The Code Book by Simon Singh.
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Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and revealing the dramatic effects codes have had on wars, nations, and individual lives. From Mary, Queen of Scots, trapped by her own code, to the Navajo Code Talkers who helped the Allies win World War II, to the incredible (and incredibly simple) logisitical breakthrough that made Internet commerce secure, The Code Book tells the story of the most powerful intellectual weapon ever known: secrecy.
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The book was written in 1999, so some parts of the last chapters are outdated, but the book is very interesting. The concerns for privacy are discussed as a worry for the future and it was interesting for me to see what the views were back then (I had my first computer in 1999 and had a dial-up connection 3 or 4 years later
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Now I'm reading The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith.