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This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race
Nicole Perlroth
4.25 AVERAGE
273 reviews for:
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race
Nicole Perlroth
4.25 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
informative
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More of a history book than I expected but fascinating nonetheless
This reads like a hybrid between a history of cyber and a look into the chaos that is American politics and interdepartmental bureaucracy. The history I liked. The politics was boring. You don’t need to speak infosec/cyber to read this, she isn’t talking about code and how it works beyond the basics so that you understand what is happening. If you know nothing about this world this is like an introduction to that world and how we got to the excessively vulnerable state that we now live in
It was written more like a thriller than I expected, with the author telling you how she found certain information, how she felt when certain things were revealed to her etc. I expected things to be more clinical than that and I liked that writing decision because it made the book more readable for sure. I will say this is excessively American focused, I get it to some extent because she’s American, working for an American newspaper, and American security agencies are the ones that opened the cyber Pandora’s box but it would have been interesting to hear more about other nations than just the US and their enemies. Interesting and thought provoking and I will doing everything I can to avoid the internet of things after reading it
This reads like a hybrid between a history of cyber and a look into the chaos that is American politics and interdepartmental bureaucracy. The history I liked. The politics was boring. You don’t need to speak infosec/cyber to read this, she isn’t talking about code and how it works beyond the basics so that you understand what is happening. If you know nothing about this world this is like an introduction to that world and how we got to the excessively vulnerable state that we now live in
It was written more like a thriller than I expected, with the author telling you how she found certain information, how she felt when certain things were revealed to her etc. I expected things to be more clinical than that and I liked that writing decision because it made the book more readable for sure. I will say this is excessively American focused, I get it to some extent because she’s American, working for an American newspaper, and American security agencies are the ones that opened the cyber Pandora’s box but it would have been interesting to hear more about other nations than just the US and their enemies. Interesting and thought provoking and I will doing everything I can to avoid the internet of things after reading it
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This should be required reading for all citizens. The "cyber thing" is way more pernicious than I ever imagined. It reads like a thriller. No need for technical knowledge to follow along. Loved it (though fear the content)!
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challenging
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challenging
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Excellent book about cyber warfare and the dangers few of us know about. Very relevant to the current (3/22) situation in Ukraine and explains the attack in 2015 that they faced.
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