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A review by tdowney
Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks by Scott J. Shapiro
informative
medium-paced
3.5
Overall I enjoyed, the hacking stuff was interesting while not being too dense. There were some bits I thought could be trimmed (if the set up for your analogy takes 2 pages you can probably find a better one).
I appreciate that having the messages between the hackers adds value to the text and it was often very interesting, but some bits definitely felt unnecessary (no surprise that hackers - a famously quite misogynistic group - say some tasteless things). Also, reading things like "for the lulz" in '24 gave me ptsd.
I appreciate that having the messages between the hackers adds value to the text and it was often very interesting, but some bits definitely felt unnecessary (no surprise that hackers - a famously quite misogynistic group - say some tasteless things). Also, reading things like "for the lulz" in '24 gave me ptsd.