attrition.org / securityerrata.org Errata Ledger

With the recent discovery of a wide variety of plagiarism in security books, the Attrition Errata project has begun to spend money to enhance our coverage of the issue and continue to expose more charlatans and plagiarists. While most books are cheap in and of themselves, they begin to add up. This page serves as a public ledger of expenses related to this project.

With us harping about integrity and honesty, we are publishing the ledger as a simple way to maintain transparency behind the financial resources that go into this. On the flip side, we do not keep track of every expenditure related to attrition.org (e.g., bandwidth, hardware) that is an underlying operational expense. Costs associated with securityerrata.org are included, as the web site and mirror of content were the result of a sustained DDoS attack on attrition.org making the material temporarily unavailable. Any financial donations to attrition.org and the Errata Project may be used for such expenses or additional books to review. We also cannot guarantee that every single donated cent will go strictly to books, but we do our best.

Ledger

The following people have generously donated money to cover the purchase of books to be reviewed for plagiarism.

The following books have been purchased to support the Errata Project, specifically in discovering plagiarism. Note: Price of book is included, S&H is not (even though typically more than the book if used). We make every attempt to purchase low-cost used copies. Some argue that buying supports the author, but we feel that our one purchase may dissuade ten others from buying.

Other expenditures directly related to the Errata Project.