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This is how they tell me the world ends : the cyberweapons arms race / Nicole Perlroth.

Summary:

Filled with spies, hackers, arms dealers, and a few unsung heroes, written like a thriller and a reference, This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends is an astonishing feat of journalism. Based on years of reporting and hundreds of interviews, The New York Times reporter Nicole 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.

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.

Record details

ISBN: 9781635576054
ISBN: 1635576059
ISBN: 9781526629852
ISBN: 1526629852
Physical Description: xxvii, 491 pages ; 24 cm
Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.
Copyright: ©2020

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-471) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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.