钮心忻

Niu Xinxin is an author active in Chinese popular-science and information-security writing, though public information about her is limited and her nationality, dates of birth and death, and educational background are not clearly recorded. The eight works held in the collection show that her writing spans communications technology, cryptography, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and scientists' biographies. These include the two-volume The Story of Communications, which traces the development of communications in an accessible way, and A Brief History of Cryptography: From Ancient Times to the Future and A Brief History of Security: From Privacy Protection to Quantum Cryptography, which use the "brief history" approach to connect technological developments. She also addresses social engineering and everyday protection in The Psychology of Hackers: Principles of Social Engineering and Thirty-Six Strategies for Cybersecurity: Hacker Defense Techniques Everyone Should Know, and extends her view to brain-computer interfaces and the vision of manufacturing superhumans. Her style is narrative popular science aimed at general readers, using history and cases to lower the threshold of technical subjects.