2026-09-21-books-4-candidates.md

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Books candidate verification — 2026-09-21

Bead: craig-books-needs-research-4-9pp

FROZEN-track corroboration of the 4 entries in books/inventory.json needs_research[] against OpenLibrary (edition-level, not just work-level) + attempted WorldCat.

Constraint: No changes to books/inventory.json — Adam decides promotion. This is a report only.

Roll-up (2 AMBIGUOUS, 2 NOT_FOUND, 0 VERIFIED)

Verdict	Candidates
VERIFIED	(none)
AMBIGUOUS	Satoshi's Vision (2019), CHFI Study Guide (2007)
NOT_FOUND	Mobile Malware (2008), NT Security (2001)

Key finding — OpenLibrary author-key hazard

OpenLibrary has TWO author entities that both surface as "Craig Wright":

OL9970104A — Craig S. Wright — 1 work: IT Regulatory and Standards Compliance Handbook (2008). This is OUR Dr Craig S. Wright — matches the only verified book in books/inventory.json.
OL2662936A — Craig Wright — 123 works, top work Listening to Music (Yale music-appreciation textbook, multiple editions), plus Hidden Habits of Genius and 30+ music CDs / phonics workbooks / erotica. This is a merged/collided catch-all entity that OL routinely uses when multiple Craig Wrights write books; any single-author credit against this key is unreliable for our purposes.

Two of the four candidates below list a "Craig Wright" co-author on OL — but at key OL2662936A. Circumstantial evidence (Kleiman on the same volume, Bitcoin subject matter) supports OUR Wright, but OL alone cannot confirm.

Per candidate

1. Satoshi's Vision (2019) — `satoshis-vision-2019`

Classification: AMBIGUOUS
Verdict: OL record exists (self-published, 2019, "Paul Democritou + Craig Wright"), but the Wright author-key resolves to the merged Yale-musicologist entity — attribution to our Dr Craig S. Wright unverified.
Top external URL: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL30141278W
ISBN-13: 9781688735927
Publisher / year: Independently Published, 2019 (Amazon KDP)
Co-authors per OL: Paul Democritou (OL9323372A), Craig Wright (OL2662936A — merged entity)
What Adam needs to decide: Amazon product-page confirmation of Dr Craig S. Wright as co-author would flip to VERIFIED.

2. CHFI Study Guide (2007) — `chfi-study-guide-2007`

Classification: AMBIGUOUS
Verdict: The Syngress 2007 CHFI 312-49 Study Guide is real (ISBN 9781597491976, 512pp, OCLC 874926438); OL edition lists five co-authors including Dave Kleiman + a "Craig Wright" at the merged OL key. Kleiman co-authorship is strong circumstantial evidence for a Wright chapter contribution, but not OL-verifiable on its own.
Top external URL: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL12493411M
ISBN-13: 9781597491976 (ISBN-10: 1597491977)
Publisher / year: Syngress, October 8 2007, 512pp, LCCN 2008270319, LC QA76.9.A25 O34 2007
OCLC: 874926438
Co-authors per OL edition: Dave Kleiman (OL3103562A, known Wright collaborator), Craig Wright (OL2662936A — merged entity), Jesse "James" Varsalone (OL3925185A), Timothy Clinton (OL3925186A), Michael Gregg (OL2730899A)
What Adam needs to decide: the physical book's TOC / contributor bios would flip to VERIFIED. The Kleiman connection is a strong prior.

3. Mobile Malware (2008) — `mobile-malware-2008`

Classification: NOT_FOUND
Verdict: Mobile Malware Attacks and Defense (Syngress/Elsevier, 2008, ISBN 9781597492980, 440pp) exists but OL credits ONLY Ken Dunham on both editions. No Craig Wright of any variant is on the OL record.
Top external URL: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16921562W
ISBN-13 (editions): 9781597492980, 9780080949192
Publisher / year: Elsevier / Syngress (imprint), 2008, 440pp, LC TK5102.85 .D86 2008
Credited author per OL: Ken Dunham (OL2494058A) only
Recommendation: drop from needs_research[] unless Adam has a specific citation (e.g. a chapter attribution in the printed book's TOC) to reintroduce it.

4. NT Security (2001) — `nt-security-2001`

Classification: NOT_FOUND
Verdict: Zero OL hits under (Craig+Wright / Craig+S+Wright / C+S+Wright) x (NT Security / Windows NT Security / Windows NT Server Security). 28 title-only NT-Security hits skew 1996-1998 (peak NT4 era); none from 2001 and none by any Wright. Publisher-Syngress + author-Wright returns exactly one book — the already-verified 2008 IT Regulatory Handbook.
Top external URL: https://openlibrary.org/search.json?title=Windows+NT+Security&limit=10
Top 5 title-only hits (all NOT Wright):

1. Windows NT security — Nik Okuntseff (1997) — /works/OL6026349W

2. Windows NT security guide — Stewart S. Miller (1998) — /works/OL1868180W

3. Windows NT Security Handbook — Tom Sheldon (1996) — /works/OL282817W

4. Windows Nt Security — Charles B. Rutstein (1997) — /works/OL3334014W

5. Windows NT security — no author listed (1998) — /works/OL23877268W

Recommendation: drop from needs_research[] unless Adam has a specific external citation.

WorldCat

Blocked. worldcat.org/search?q=… returns HTTP 301 to search.worldcat.org, which is served behind Cloudflare and returns HTTP 429 (rate-limited) or HTTP 403 (bot-challenge "Just a moment…") to plain curl. OCLC direct lookup (search.worldcat.org/title/874926438) also 403'd. Would need a browser session or WorldCat API key to corroborate.

Report only. Corrections/promotion via Adam.