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ilovebooksanddontcarewhoknows's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
Catchy journalistic dramatic writing. Pretty bias to the subject matter, but even then it's very people focused.
tativv's review against another edition
challenging
dark
informative
reflective
tense
slow-paced
2.0
I can barely imagine the extensive research behind this book. Together with great storytelling it had humongous potential, but unfortunately Perlroth is guilty of what so many other US writers are - complete lack of objectivity, orientalization of whomever does not come from US as well as constant collonial thinking. Only the US has good and bad people, other countries have one-two people representing them all. Every tiny little thing Perlroth does not know from US gets specific stress in the storytelling, no matter how stereotyping, biased and unimportant it is. She uses very different language speaking of other countries "they are meddling with our elections" whilst using very sterile language when the US "targets" other countries. Do US writers acknowledge that only because they have troubles understanding other languages/cultures it does not apply vice versa?! I could continue like that on and on and thats why its a generous 2/5 from me. Greetings from Europe.
mikkelskifter's review against another edition
5.0
Infiltration af cyber-spionage og våben markedet. Belyser den underjordiske informations krig der foregår mellem de fleste nationstater lige nu.
linuxlibrarian's review against another edition
adventurous
inspiring
fast-paced
5.0
A definite read for all CyberSec Students, and wanna be hackers.
anovelobsession's review against another edition
5.0
If just reading the prologue to this book doesn't make you want to live off the grid and bury your money in your backyard, you are braver than I. A lot of this book was information that I know nothing about so I did a lot of re-reading and looking up words and people/events in the news. It definitely opened my eyes to the world we are living in know. Information is power. Have enough of it and you can control anything. It also gave me a new appreciation for those working in our Cyber Command. But it also left me with a lot of questions and anxiety about what we are doing to ensure our infrastructure, banking and weapon systems remain safe and secure!
jadeyen's review against another edition
dark
funny
informative
medium-paced
4.75
I loved the journalistic approach and person forward storytelling, coupled with the contextual geopolitics, information about the government, etc. Though I do think that contributed also to a minor sense of head swirling at just how layered and complex these things can be — even as a software engineer that keeps fairly up to date with geopolitics! She deftly weaves multiple nation-states/corporations security policies and actions, security history, sources all across different government departments, and hacker/security figure profiles to a cohesive and very well written/composed narrative. I’m both terrified and glad to have read this.
All my homies hate IoT/me first security policy!!
All my homies hate IoT/me first security policy!!