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This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends
- The Cyberweapons Arms Race
- Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
- Length: 18 hrs and 32 mins
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Summary
Bloomsbury presents This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends by Nicole Perlroth, read by Allyson Ryan.
WINNER OF THE FT & McKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2021
The instant New York Times bestseller
A Financial Times and The Times Book of the Year
'A terrifying exposé' The Times
'Part John le Carré . . . Spellbinding' New Yorker
We plug in anything we can to the internet. We can control our entire lives, economy and grid via a remote web control. But over the past decade, as this transformation took place, we never paused to think that we were also creating the world’s largest attack surface. And that the same nation that maintains the greatest cyber advantage on earth could also be among its most vulnerable.
Filled with spies, hackers, arms dealers and a few unsung heroes, This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends is an astonishing and gripping feat of journalism. Drawing on years of reporting and hundreds of interviews, Nicole Perlroth lifts the curtain on a market in shadow, revealing the urgent threat faced by us all if we cannot bring the global cyber arms race to heel.
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- Mr. D. Clarke
- 04-04-22
Awful narration, great book
This book is excellent but the narration is painfully awful. The narrator seems to be unaware of, or oblivious to, the purpose of punctuation. An AI would have done a better job and could would have sounded more engaged. I persisted though as the book is that good.
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- Gregory Donaghy
- 01-02-23
Enjoyable and informative.
Beautifully written and very educational. It was a pleasure to listen to, too. I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in cybersecurity.
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- Darren Evans
- 05-10-23
Thought provoking
I couldn't stop listening. Truly scary just how close we are to cyber destruction.
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- Mr. Brian Jenkinson
- 12-08-24
Cyber Dirty
An excellent insight to the dirty side of cyber. Government threat actors partnering with nation state threat actors. Can it get dirty? Read and find out.
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- Andro
- 29-08-21
Good history of cyber warfare with context
Very good but for more technical view read Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers by Andy Greenberg.
thx to Jack Rhysider from Darknet diaries for recommending
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- peter
- 25-02-22
the best horror book I've read all year
genuinely fantastic but not conducive to a good night's sleep. fingers crossed for the future.
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- j0hn
- 19-01-23
covers loads of stuff
not a "technical" book, but for the breadth of coverage it is excellent and well researched.
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- Miles
- 01-06-21
Remarkable insights into a secret and deadly world
Journalists come in for a lot of criticism, much of it deserved. However, books like this should remind us how important and valuable good journalists are. This story needed to be told and it took the drive and persistence of a very talented, intelligent and brave woman to do it. Nicole Perlroth makes this complex and highly technical world accessible to the public. It shines a light on the very dangerous underbelly of the Internet, which is driven by greed, fear and political ambition. What struck me most was how the public and a country’s infrastructure has become the battlefield and how everyone in the world is likely to be a victim or casualty one day. I really hope that this book is widely read and pressure is put on leaders around the world to restore some sanity before real disaster strikes. Everyone should read this book if they want to understand how the world could end!
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- Brian B.
- 06-08-21
A Brilliant shocking story.
Anyone with a smartphone, tablet or. PC ought to hear this book. The history of hacking is researched with great skill. I knew nothing about Zero Days and the marketing of these products. The whole world of cyber war is covered in wonderful detail. Very worrying , it's a story still unfolding. The narrator was a perfect choice.
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- David Lilja
- 21-04-21
History of Cyber Security
This is a must read for anyone working in or who wants to work in cyber security. Perlroth describes the most significant hacks in the last 15-20 years at a great detail. This book also works as a sequel to Greenberg’s Sandworm. Though Ryan has an awkward pronunciation and pauses this is still a great experience. I highly recommend it!
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