Book description
āUnsettling, absolutely riveting, andāfor better or worseānecessary reading.ā āBrian Christian, author of Algorithms to Live By and The Alignment Problem
An entertaining account of the philosophy and technology of hackingāand why we all need to understand it.
Itās a signal paradox of our times that we live in an informationā¦
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Shapiro focuses on a five key episodes in the evolution of hacking, from the time during the early days of the internet when a graduate student at Cornell unleashed a worm that crashed the entire internet, to the sophisticated spear phishing of Russian operatives who gained access to Clinton campaign emails. The focus is as much or more on the human and organizational weaknesses that have made these hacks possible as on the technical details. Each story is told in an accessible and interesting way.
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