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Why computer security is hard
Security is not established by a working demonstration. This overview examines identity and authority, design and memory safety, hardware and containment, supply chains, and the evidence needed to judge security claims.

How the internet carries information, and why services can fail
How networks move information between computers, why DNS, routers, CDNs and servers do different jobs, and how shared dependencies can cause outages.

How computers turn 0s and 1s into words and pictures
How electronic switches become binary numbers, letters, pictures and sound, and how computer instructions turn those values into something useful.

How computers work: Feynman’s high-speed filing clerk
A primer on how computers work through Richard Feynman’s high-speed filing-clerk model, from memory and pointers to control flow, failure and intelligence.
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