Bibliograph

This is how they tell me the world ends, the cyberweapons arms race, Nicole Perlroth

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This is how they tell me the world ends, the cyberweapons arms race, Nicole Perlroth

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-471) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

This is how they tell me the world ends

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1236046633

Responsibility statement

Nicole Perlroth

Sub title

the cyberweapons arms race

Summary

Zero day: a software bug that allows a hacker to break into your devices and move around undetected. For decades, under cover of classification levels and non-disclosure agreements, the United States government became the world's dominant hoarder of zero days. U.S. government agents paid top dollar to hackers willing to sell their lock-picking code and their silence. Now those zero days are in the hands of hostile nations and mercenaries who do not care if your vote goes missing, your clean water is contaminated, or our nuclear plants melt down. Perlroth lifts the curtain on a market in shadow, revealing the urgent threat faced by us all if we cannot bring the global cyber arms race to heel. -- adapted from jacket

Table Of Contents

Prologue -- Part I: Mission impossible. Closet of secrets ; The fucking salmon -- Part II: The capitalists. The cowboy ; The first broker ; Zero-day Charlie -- Part III: The spies. Project Gunman ; The godfather ; The omnivore ; The Rubicon ; The factory -- Part IV: The mercenaries. The Kurd ; Dirty business ; Guns for hire -- Part V: The resistance. Aurora ; Bounty hunters ; Going dark -- Part VI: The twister. Cyber gauchos ; Perfect storm ; The grid -- Part VII: Boomerang. The Russians are coming ; The shadow brokers ; The attacks ; The backyard -- Epilogue

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