Silence on the Wire is a narrated guide through the marvelously complex and fascinating world of computer and networking security. The book offers an in-depth dissection of some of the most interesting, beautiful, and unique security and privacy problems that have been found and explored to date.
It is not a reference book, not an almanac of known vulnerabilities, and is not a guide to securing your enterprise over the weekend. Its goal is to challenge, offer insight, and provoke exploration of uncharted cyber-lands; and yet it also manages to convey a good deal of solid, practical knowledge of use to all readers. The book gives seasoned computer enthusiasts and professionals a new perspective on fundamental, yet subtle security problems they face every day, enabling them to to foresee and deal with these issues more easily.
You can read a sample chapter about how to use the blinking lights on a router in order to read the network traffic
here. The book is in English and has 281 pages.