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Comment on: What I've Been Thinking About
Schneier's career has an interesting arc that is not too dissimilar from that of Eric Raymond, involving early modest-but-significant contributions to the field (cryptologic literature for Schneier, open source software for Raymond), then a marked phase of popularization and evangelism, followed by a full-throttle transition into punditry.I'd definitely push back on the way you characterized _Applied_ and _Practical_ (now called _Cryptography Engineering_). The two books are very different and are the product of different authors; Schneier wrote _Applied_ but co-authored _Practical_._Applied_