Content protection and digital rights management (DRM) are fields that receive a lot of attention: content owners require systems that protect and maximize their revenues; consumers want backwards compatibility, while they fear that content owners will spy on their viewing habits; and academics are afraid that DRM may be a barrier to knowledge sharing. DRM technologies have a poor reputation and are not yet trusted.This book describes the key aspects of content protection and DRM s...

In this book the author presents ten key laws governing information security. He addresses topics such as attacks, vulnerabilities, threats, designing security, identifying key IP assets, authentication, and social engineering. The informal style draws on his experience in the area of video protection and DRM, while the text is supplemented with introductions to the core formal technical ideas. It will be of interest to professionals and researchers engaged with information security.

A spoor is poisoning the atmosphere of the planet, a plight accelerated by the lunar colony's illicit piracy of atmospheric moisture. The Zemplar of the planetary Alliance argues to launch a military action intended to destroy the fleet of lunar harvest vessels

Science-fiction and traditional ghost-story merge in this tale of the near-future. Ghosts and spirits abound here, but be careful what you download...Have you ever been on a ghost hunt...?Contains occasional swearing.13.000 words.

Readers take note! This book is not a Medieval slasher epic but a serious look at 11th century society and alternate history, containing realistic people and situations. It is character-driven and has minimal sex and gore. In other words, within the limits of fiction, if time travel were feasible it might happen like this. Read the sample before buying.Recruiting Now! Join a mismatched team of men and women on an unthinkable journey to forever alter history — for better or worse.

Over a century after the seedship Lazarus completed its near 1,200 year journey, the Terran colonies found themselves in conflict with a hostile alien race.In a world decimated by a long, drawn-out war where a never-ending stream of fresh clones are fed to the Terran war machine, a genetically engineered squad of soldiers must fight to survive against all odds.When society is ruled from behind the scenes by massive corporate conglomerates that control powerful secret organiza...

Los Angeles and Washington DC receive unexpected visitors and everyone is scrambling to find out what they are. Julie Rumley, a scientist from Chicago, will find out wether she wants to or not. Soaring is a short story meant to activate your imagination.

Humans by themselves could only fail. Society is splintered after allowing an evolving artificial intelligence, calling itself Makr run the planet's resources, saving humankind the trouble. Not all people have accepted the illusion of a perfectly run society or PerSoc. The lazy and frustrated ones did. Some even worship Makr as a god. Makr has armies of mobile cyberts constantly seeking out human malcontents to delete. Had the human race rebelled or unified in some way there might ...

A young girl finds out that a glow in her eye is much more than she expects. Now she is being groomed to become a member of a specialized fraternity where only the best and brightest minds can belong. Her experience through her teenage years are recounted in Gryphon.

Along the coasts of the North Atlantic there are legends of a lost land over the sea - a land of magic, of immortality, and of plenty. Plato described such a land, naming it Atlantis. In his descriptions, the Atlanteans were doomed by their falling into decadence, and their opposition to the spirits of nature. An epic fantasy rooted in the mythology of the lost land, "The Fall of the Sea People" tells of these twin errors, and of how they brought about the destruction of a Neolit...

It was a leap of faith every time they did it, and everyone knew the odds were against them. Dropping into a deep-penetration strategic reconnaissance mission from near space took intensive training and a strong personality. The thrill is the thing, but Angela Yancey needs to get through to Jason Bridger before he kills them both. A short story.

Sir Isaac K. Magnus is a man who is many things:a loving husbanda licensed alchemistand a Paranormal exterminator in Her Majesty’s name.Isaac has relocated from London, England to the British Regions of America. He promised his wife, Miasma, that he would take a holiday from monsters and apparitions. Unfortunately, in his line of work, downtime isn't always easy to come by.Isaac didn’t move just for a holiday. He is secretly on the hunt for a rare ar...