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A review by suzanneloving
Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon by Kim Zetter
challenging
slow-paced
4.0
Very challenging to read as it's technical and dry in many places, there are so many locations and people involved. While you're kept a bit on the edge of your seat learning along with the researchers, there are large sections where the footnotes are almost more than the text. Many, many long explanatory footnotes, not just references and citations.
This isn't a light read, it's a complex research report on cyber warfare, politics, geo-political concerns, the industry of anti-viral research, and the art of malware. The more information you have in your head on any and all of those topics, the easier the read will be, and even with that, it's sometimes deeply dry and factual and it's only your own experience with gaps, crises, and political pressures that will add flavour to what you're reading.
Also, it's only 411 pages, but it feels like 1000. There is an index, and it's 18 pages long.
This isn't a light read, it's a complex research report on cyber warfare, politics, geo-political concerns, the industry of anti-viral research, and the art of malware. The more information you have in your head on any and all of those topics, the easier the read will be, and even with that, it's sometimes deeply dry and factual and it's only your own experience with gaps, crises, and political pressures that will add flavour to what you're reading.
Also, it's only 411 pages, but it feels like 1000. There is an index, and it's 18 pages long.