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This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race | Nicole Perlroth
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'Reads like a modern-day John le Carr novel, with terrifying tales of espionage and cyber warfare that will keep you up at night, both unable to stop reading, and terrified for what the future holds' Nick Bilton, author of American Kingpin Zero day: a software bug that allows a hacker to break in and scamper through the world's computer networks invisibly until discovered. One of the most coveted tools in a spy's arsenal, a zero day has the power to tap into any iPhone, dismantle safety controls at a chemical plant and shut down the power in an entire nation just ask the Ukraine. Zero days are the blood diamonds of the security trade, pursued by nation states, defense contractors, cybercriminals, and security defenders alike. In this market, governments aren't regulators; they are clients paying huge sums to hackers willing to turn over gaps in the Internet, and stay silent about them. This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends is cybersecurity reporter Nicole Perlroth's discovery, unpacked. A intrepid journalist unravels an opaque, code-driven market from the outside in encountering spies, hackers, arms dealers, mercenaries and a few unsung heroes along the way. As the stakes get higher and higher in the rush to push the world's critical infrastructure online, This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends is the urgent and alarming discovery of one of the world's most extreme threats.
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psalva
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I picked this book up for a bit of research on a short story I‘m writing and I‘m learning a lot (and becoming a bit more paranoid with each page). One cyber, or information, security term that came up is “zero-days.” These are flaws in software or hardware which make every user around the world vulnerable. They‘re named because the targets of attack have zero days to come up with a defense. These are scary! #weirdwords #weirdwordWednesdays
@CBee

Bookwormjillk If you‘re researching cyber I highly recommend the cyber wire daily podcast. So informative/scary. 7mo
psalva @Bookwormjillk Thanks for the recommendation! A lot of things are really over my head. I can use all the insight I can get. 7mo
Bookwormjillk @psalva that‘s why I like cyber wire. It‘s just a little bit a day and after a while it starts to make sense. 7mo
CBee Ooo, that is pretty scary 😨 Thanks for sharing! 7mo
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angelasoup
Mehso-so

Good information in subject matter that interests me, but I was sometimes distracted by the writing - bad literary devices, inconsistencies, timelines that didn‘t seem to make sense, passages that were hard to follow, and straight up typos - many more than I would have expected for a $30 book.

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DogMomIrene
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Just heard this author on Real Time with Bill Maher. Eagerly waiting for my next Audible credit. At 528 pages, I‘m thinking listening to this one will work better for me.