Received my copies of Bruce Schneier’s Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive for the creative concept work I did related to the book’s cover.

Story behind how it transpired here and at Bruce’s blog here.

I’ve been following security expert Bruce Schneier‘s blog for about a year and appreciate his ability to communicate technical security issues to a Luddite like me.

When he asked readers for feedback on working titles and covers for his upcoming book, Liars and Outliers, I spent 20 minutes designing a prototype of what I thought would communicate ‘security’ and still appeal to a broader audience.

I sent my prototype to Bruce, and he shared with his publisher, Wiley. To my surprise, they took the prototype and refined it.

Thank you Bruce and Wiley for the great honor in letting me contribute in this way.

My prototype:

Final cover:

Great TED Talk from security expert Bruce Schneier.

“We estimate the probability of something by how easy it is to bring instances of it to mind. So you can imagine how that works. You hear a lot of tiger attacks. There must be a lot of tigers around. You don’t hear about lion attacks. There aren’t a lot of lions around. This works until you invent newspapers, because what newspapers do is repeat, again and again, rare risks. I tell people if it’s in the news, don’t worry about it, because by definition news is something that almost never happens. When something is common, it’s no longer news.”