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A review by hank
Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks by Scott J. Shapiro
3.0
3.5 rounded down. I should know better by now to read a book blurb and expect it to reflect the contents of the book. I get my hopes up or imagine something the book isn't. What I was hoping for was this
"With lucidity and wit, he establishes that cybercrime has less to do with defective programming than with the faulty wiring of our psyches and society"
What I got was a history of computers, two case studies that were the exact opposite of the above statement and a reflection at the end about how there is nothing we can to do stop State actors (Russia, China, U.K., etc) from accessing our computers because of the resources they bring to bear.
The book was fairly disjointed at the beggining and was in solid 2-3 star territory but he brought some of it back together at the end for a minor save. I found the most interesting chapter/passage a relatively straight lift from Behavioral Economics by Kahneman.
Only recommended to a beginning computer security student/employee
"With lucidity and wit, he establishes that cybercrime has less to do with defective programming than with the faulty wiring of our psyches and society"
What I got was a history of computers, two case studies that were the exact opposite of the above statement and a reflection at the end about how there is nothing we can to do stop State actors (Russia, China, U.K., etc) from accessing our computers because of the resources they bring to bear.
The book was fairly disjointed at the beggining and was in solid 2-3 star territory but he brought some of it back together at the end for a minor save. I found the most interesting chapter/passage a relatively straight lift from Behavioral Economics by Kahneman.
Only recommended to a beginning computer security student/employee