This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends

The Cyberweapons Arms Race

De: Nicole Perlroth

Narrado por: Allyson Ryan

Duración: 18 h y 32 m

Resumen del Editor

Bloomsbury presents This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends by Nicole Perlroth, read by Allyson Ryan.

Zero day: a software bug that allows a hacker to break in and scamper through the world’s computer networks invisibly until discovered. One of the most coveted tools in a spy's arsenal, a zero day has the power to tap into any iPhone, dismantle safety controls at a chemical plant and shut down the power in an entire nation - just ask the Ukraine.

Zero days are the blood diamonds of the security trade, pursued by nation states, defence contractors, cybercriminals and security defenders alike. In this market, governments aren’t regulators; they are clients - paying huge sums to hackers willing to turn over gaps in the internet and stay silent about them.

This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends is cybersecurity reporter Nicole Perlroth’s discovery, unpacked. A intrepid journalist unravels an opaque, code-driven market from the outside in - encountering spies, hackers, arms dealers, mercenaries and a few unsung heroes along the way. As the stakes get higher and higher in the rush to push the world’s critical infrastructure online, This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends is the urgent and alarming discovery of one of the world’s most extreme threats.

©2021 Nicole Perlroth (P)2021 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Reseñas de la Crítica

"Reads like a modern-day John le Carré novel, with terrifying tales of espionage and cyber warfare that will keep you up at night, both unable to stop reading, and terrified for what the future holds." (Nick Bilton, author of American Kingpin)

"A stemwinder of a tale of how frightening cyber weapons have been turned on their maker, and the implications for the world when everyone and anyone can now decimate everyone else with a click of a mouse.... Perlroth takes a complex subject that has been cloaked in opaque techspeak and makes it dead real for the rest of us. You will not look at your mobile phone, your search engine, even your networked thermostat the same way again." (Kara Swisher, co-founder of Recode and New York Times opinion writer)

"Nicole Perlroth has written a dazzling and revelatory history of the darkest corner of the internet, where hackers and governments secretly trade the tools of the next war.... This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends is a rollicking fun trip, front to back, and an urgent call for action before our wired world spins out of our control. I've covered cybersecurity for a decade and yet paragraph after paragraph I kept wondering: 'How did she manage to figure *that* out? How is she so good?'" (Garrett M. Graff, author of The Only Plane in the Sky)

Great book

The book is great. But i wish if the audio editor removed the breathing between sentences.

Excellent book. Highly recommended.

The book is excellent, but there are problems with the audio. The final chapter repeats 2x. The narrator has to learn how to pronounce key words like Kyiv. But those audio issues aside. This is a must read/listen.

Insightful for our digital age

A great read for our times. A few words with strange pronunciations, but so few as to not detract from the book.

Zero-year exploits

An incredibly thorough, brave and meaningful research on the little-known world of InfoSec warfare. Nicole Perlroth doing the lord's work here, in a really comprehensive text that reads almost like an adventure.
Very grateful that there are people like her out there, doing this kind of investigative reporting, and the rest of us have the privilege of reading/listening to.

Awesome!

Awesome book! That goes well with many other spy books like: Cult of the Dead Cow By cover art
Cult of the Dead Cow or The Art of Invisibility

Phenomenal book on cyberwarfare

Truly a page turner on a very complicated topic. Outstanding writing and narration.

This is one of those books whereafter you think: how on earth is nobody talking about this (cyberwarfare)?

Page turner but loses steam

This is a page turner. well written and engaging. excellent narrative around the history of cyber warfare. It loses track by the end and delves into the same hackneyed complains about the Russians and Trump.
On the negative side, was the narrator's lack of general knowledge. She thinks the capital of Ukraine is called "Kreev", China is coverned by "community party" and that famous German magazine is called "spiega" , to name a few. Even my 10 year old son would be able to to correct her.

cyber War

Gripping story. Well told and pleasant narration. Really enjoyed it though let me wonder what security I had left.

Just thank you

Just thank you for writing this book it brinks things in to interesting context. And I'm afraid soon the storm is coming...

Cyber and its impact

Interesting immersion into governments and the development of the unruly world of cyber attacks and how it is continuing to evolve. Further personalised by stories and impact it has on our lives.