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The Ransomware Hunting Team: A Band of Misfits' Improbable Crusade to Save the World from Cybercrime
by Daniel Golden, Renee Dudley
Read Harder challenge 2023: Pick a challenge from any of the previous years’ challenges to repeat!
Depending on which way you look at it, this cop-out/option-multiplying task led me back to the Read Harder challenge for 2016 (my introduction to this challenge), and a task on that list which introduced me to the Audie Awards, which I had never heard of before. In 2016, I listened to [b:Anne Frank Remembered|5509|Anne Frank Remembered|Miep Gies|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1437766396l/5509._SY75_.jpg|558948], the story of Anne Frank from the point of view of Miep Gies and her husband, the ones who hid the Frank and van Pels families. I remember thinking that the audiobook was a superb production: the reading was soothing and the story well-paced, gripping and intensely emotive. So this time around I took the opportunity to see what else the Audie awards have to offer, 7 years later.
Listen to an audiobook that has won an Audie Award:
The Ransomware hunting team, written by Renee Dudley and Daniel Golden, and narrated by none other than BD Wong (Dr Henry Wu!) won the 2023 Audie award for non-fiction. It is a captivating history of Ransomware and the arms race between the Ransomware developers and the Ransomware hunting team, the real-life ragtag band of misfit heroes who do all they can, often sacrificing their own health and wellbeing, to help victims of cybercriminals. They do so largely unrewarded, often because they are motivated by standing up to anonymous bullies. This story is rich with such delicious tropes as underdog prodigies, criminals' comeuppance and long overdue recognition and reward for the hard-working experts who put themselves at risk for the benefit of strangers. And, even better, this is all a true story, thoroughly researched and wonderfully told.
If you're ever wondering what to listen to next, just have a look through the Audie award winners and you won't go far wrong.
https://www.audiopub.org/audie-awards
Depending on which way you look at it, this cop-out/option-multiplying task led me back to the Read Harder challenge for 2016 (my introduction to this challenge), and a task on that list which introduced me to the Audie Awards, which I had never heard of before. In 2016, I listened to [b:Anne Frank Remembered|5509|Anne Frank Remembered|Miep Gies|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1437766396l/5509._SY75_.jpg|558948], the story of Anne Frank from the point of view of Miep Gies and her husband, the ones who hid the Frank and van Pels families. I remember thinking that the audiobook was a superb production: the reading was soothing and the story well-paced, gripping and intensely emotive. So this time around I took the opportunity to see what else the Audie awards have to offer, 7 years later.
Listen to an audiobook that has won an Audie Award:
The Ransomware hunting team, written by Renee Dudley and Daniel Golden, and narrated by none other than BD Wong (Dr Henry Wu!) won the 2023 Audie award for non-fiction. It is a captivating history of Ransomware and the arms race between the Ransomware developers and the Ransomware hunting team, the real-life ragtag band of misfit heroes who do all they can, often sacrificing their own health and wellbeing, to help victims of cybercriminals. They do so largely unrewarded, often because they are motivated by standing up to anonymous bullies. This story is rich with such delicious tropes as underdog prodigies, criminals' comeuppance and long overdue recognition and reward for the hard-working experts who put themselves at risk for the benefit of strangers. And, even better, this is all a true story, thoroughly researched and wonderfully told.
If you're ever wondering what to listen to next, just have a look through the Audie award winners and you won't go far wrong.
https://www.audiopub.org/audie-awards