Whilst I was on holiday i managed to read two books. Firstly, I read "The Accidental Billionaires", which is a semi-fictional, semi-biographical account of the founding of Facebook. It was not a particularly well written book, and it tries to stay as true to life as possible as most of the research was based on accounts/articles from the time, so the author tries not to speculate or imagine too much of the finer details. That said it is still a fascinating read, and its nice to hear some details from the founding of Facebook, so i did enjoy it, if only for the insight.
The second book was "The Code Book" by Simon Singh. I have had the book on my shelf for a couple of years, but i never had a chance to get around to reading it, but i am thoroughly glad i got around to it.
The book is a history of encryption and secret codes from the start of time, and a long with it includes a lot of historical stories and details about the usage of code (ranging from stories of Xerces from Herodotus, to Mary Queen of Scots, Enigma Machine from WW2) and it is excellent. The stories, a long with the plainly written technical details of encryption make for a great read and is very educational.
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