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This volume LNCS 13855 book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Socio-Technical Aspects in Security and Trust, STAST 2022, which held in Copenhagen, Denmark, during September 26, 2022.The 6 regular papers and 2 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 20 submissions for inclusion in the book. The workshop focused especially on the interplay of technical and human factors in achieving or breaking computer security, privacy, and tr...

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the refereed conference proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Socio-Technical Aspects in Security and Trust, STAST 2021, held in conjunction with ESORICS, the European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, as a virtual event, in October 2021.The 10 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 25 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: web and apps; context an...

As heard on the New Yorker Radio Hour: The triumphant and "engaging history" (The New Yorker) of the young women who devised a winning strategy that defeated Nazi U-boats and delivered a decisive victory in the Battle of the Atlantic.By 1941, Winston Churchill had come to believe that the outcome of World War II rested on the battle for the Atlantic. A grand strategy game was devised by Captain Gilbert Roberts and a group of ten Wrens (members of ...

The “riveting…truly shocking” (The New York Times Book Review) story of a Jewish orphan who fled Nazi Germany for London, only to be arrested and sent to a British internment camp for suspected foreign agents on the Isle of Man, alongside a renowned group of refugee musicians, intellectuals, artists, and—possibly—genuine spies.Following the events of Kristallnacht in 1938, Peter Fleischmann evaded the Gestapo’s roundups in Berlin by way of a peril...

From award-winning journalist and New Yorker contributor Simon Parkin comes the untold true story of the courtroom battle to determine who really invented the video game—and who would profit most from its billion-dollar future.New York, 1988. A lawsuit between Nintendo and US television manufacturer Magnavox is playing out in federal court, unearthing decades of invention, betrayal, and buried history from the pioneering days of video games.The tri...

Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, Scientific American, and The EconomistThe riveting, untold true story of the botanists at the world’s first seed bank who made “the mad, heroic decision during the siege of Leningrad to guard biodiversity at the cost of human life” (The New York Times, Editors’ Choice)—from the award-winning author of The Island of Extraordinary Captives.In the summe...

As heard on the New Yorker Radio Hour: The triumphant and "engaging history" (The New Yorker) of the young women who devised a winning strategy that defeated Nazi U-boats and delivered a decisive victory in the Battle of the Atlantic.By 1941, Winston Churchill had come to believe that the outcome of World War II rested on the battle for the Atlantic. A grand strategy game was devised by Captain Gilbert Roberts and a group of ten Wrens (members of ...

From one of our leading experts on disinformation, this inventive biography of the rogue WWII propagandist Thomas Sefton Delmer confronts hard questions about the nature of information war: what if you can't fight lies with truth? Can a propaganda war ever be won?In the summer of 1941, Hitler ruled Europe from the Atlantic to the Black Sea. Britain was struggling to combat his powerful propaganda machine, crowing victory and smearing his enemies as liars and manipu...

A major new biography of Francis Crick, codiscoverer of the structure of DNA, pioneering neuroscientist, and twentieth-century geniusWhat are the moments that make a life? In Francis Crick’s, the decisive moment came in 1951, when he first met James Watson. Their ensuing discovery of the structure of DNA made Crick world-famous. But neither that chance meeting nor that discovery made Crick who he was.As Matthew Cobb shows in Crick, it is another ch...

**Discover a fascinating look into the lives of six historic trailblazers in this World War II-era story of the American women who programmed the world's first modern computer."Kleiman’s persistence in sleuthing out the story of the ENIAC 6 programmers has resulted in an admirable contribution to the historical record and a labor of love." ―Wall Street Journal**After the end of World War II, the race for technological supremacy sped on. Top-secret research into bal...

An “adventure tale for puzzle lovers and Indiana Jones fans alike” (The Washington Post) following three free-spirited Victorians on their twenty-year quest to decipher cuneiform, the oldest writing in the world—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu.It was one of history’s great vanishing acts. Around 3,400 BCE, a scribe in the mud-walled city-state of Uruk picked up a reed stylus to press tiny s...