“The Perfect Weapon is the startling inside story of how the rise of cyberweapons transformed geopolitics like nothing since the invention of the atomic bomb” it says on the back cover, and Sanger dives into cyberweapons and their implications on national and international security.
Category: Books
Book review: Twitter and tear gas
Occasionally I acquire a book that simply gives me goosebumps and a joy to read. I feel honored to even hold the book in my hands. Zeynep Tufekci is the programmer turned sociologist, the associate professor studying technology’s impact on social movements, protests and surveillance capitalism.
Book review: This is how they tell me the world ends
What is a zero-day? You may have heard news involving zero-days or zero-day exploits without actually reading those words, or you actually have read about zero-days, such as the Pegasus Project and the NSO Group? Nicole Perlroth is an American journalist focused on cybersecurity and digital espionage and did recently release her first book, This is how they tell me the world ends.
A book that changed my life
Most of can relate to, and reminisce, a moment in our life when we made an important choice, when we reach a subtle decision point. Not long ago I was on my way out of a bookstore when I suddenly caught the attention of a book I had seen before, but disregarded: Deep Work by Cal Newport.
Book review: Privacy is power
Carissa is an associate professor at the University of Oxford and has led an extensive research project on privacy, Data, privacy & the individual. Here, I will present some topics of the book for the interested. I should emphasize that this review concerns the 2020 edition.