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Fancy Bear Goes Phishing
Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks | Scott J. Shapiro
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"Unsettling, absolutely riveting, andfor better or worsenecessary reading." Brian Christian, author of Algorithms to Live By and The Alignment Problem An entertaining account of the philosophy and technology of hackingand why we all need to understand it. Its a signal paradox of our times that we live in an information society but do not know how it works. And without understanding how our information is stored, used, and protected, we are vulnerable to having it exploited. In Fancy Bear Goes Phishing, Scott J. Shapiro draws on his popular Yale University class about hacking to expose the secrets of the digital age. With lucidity and wit, he establishes that cybercrime has less to do with defective programming than with the faulty wiring of our psyches and society. And because hacking is a human-interest story, he tells the fascinating tales of perpetrators, including Robert Morris Jr., the graduate student who accidentally crashed the internet in the 1980s, and the Bulgarian Dark Avenger, who invented the first mutating computer-virus engine. We also meet a sixteen-year-old from South Boston who took control of Paris Hiltons cell phone, the Russian intelligence officers who sought to take control of a US election, and others. In telling their stories, Shapiro exposes the hackers tool kits and gives fresh answers to vital questions: Why is the internet so vulnerable? What can we do in response? Combining the philosophical adventure of Gdel, Escher, Bach with dramatic true-crime narrative, the result is a lively and original account of the future of hacking, espionage, and war, and of how to live in an era of cybercrime. Includes black-and-white images
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Oryx
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Love the book stamp you can get put in your books in Libreria London

squirrelbrain Both books look great! ❤️ 6mo
RaeLovesToRead Is this... non fiction? A story?? 6mo
Oryx @RaeLovesToRead the bear one? Non fiction about hacking. Sounds really interesting, but also had a bear on it, so sold. 6mo
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RaeLovesToRead It was the fancy bear that made me think it might be a story 6mo
Oryx @RaeLovesToRead I know, it sounds like some magical realism. Apparently it's a Russian cyber espionage group 🤷 who knew? 6mo
RaeLovesToRead I feel someone needs to write "The Adventures of Fancy Bear" and it not be about that 6mo
julesG Recently watched a documentary about the bears. Scary stuff. 6mo
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NotCool
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Scott Shapiro, Yale Professor: “Suppose, however, I want to send some of my writings to my friend at Stanford? (This is hypothetical, of course: I have no friends at Stanford)”.

NotCool Petty academic slights are a few of my favorite things. 6mo
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