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I figured that a book of short stories with this kind of title would *have* to
have one on malware, or data security, or forensic computing, right?

Well, maybe.

The final story in the book, "Escape," does deal with some aspects of data
security in an "escape-proof" prison run by a computer.  It's actually pretty
good, with some social engineering, a little (very little) hacking, some backup
systems, some spoofing of identification systems.  The final plan boils down to
pulling the plug on the computer:  a crude hack, perhaps, but effective.

For the rest, well, it's surprising to see a book of stories by a supposed
"hard" science fiction author which has so little to do with actual science, or
technology.

copyright Robert M. Slade, 1994   BKFUTCRM.RVW  940321
 
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