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I won't beat the drum regarding Mr. Gregory D Evans and his infamous security company, LIGATT Security. That topic has been covered thoroughly elsewhere, such as on Attrition.org. I was surprised at the issue of plagiarism that came up earlier this month and decided to evaluate the book myself.

Ben Rothke did an excellent job at setting up the story with his plagiarism audit on his blog.

What prompted me to do this audit was one major statement. In defense of his book, Mr. Evans spoke that "I wrote 60 percent of my book". (Source video, time marker 11:50). After reviewing Rothke's assessment again, there seems to be some grey area. In Rothke's assessment there was a total number of words copied from various other sources, but they weren't placed into the context of the total amount of content per chapter.

Here, I tried to provide that. I went page by page, paragraph by paragraph, to see where the material originated. The following chart is a complete page breakdown of various items that shows, in sequence, where material came from. I'm alleging that the material was copied from these sources, but chances are they he may have found an identical source with the same text. These are the sources that I came up with in my own research and for some there were multiple results.

For those following along at home, the page references on the left refer to the physical page in the book. To get the actual page number, subtract 30 from the reference shown here.