Attack Surface, Cory Doctorow
Attack Surface, Cory Doctorow
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Attack Surface

Author: Cory Doctorow

Narrator: Amber Benson

Unabridged: 14 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Cordoc-Co LLC

Published: 10/13/2020

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

Cory Doctorow's Attack Surface is a standalone novel set in the world of New York Times bestsellers Little Brother and Homeland.
Most days, Masha Maximow was sure she'd chosen the winning side.
In her day job as a counterterrorism wizard for an transnational cybersecurity firm, she made the hacks that allowed repressive regimes to spy on dissidents, and manipulate their every move. The perks were fantastic, and the pay was obscene.
Just for fun, and to piss off her masters, Masha sometimes used her mad skills to help those same troublemakers evade detection, if their cause was just. It was a dangerous game and a hell of a rush. But seriously self-destructive. And unsustainable.
When her targets were strangers in faraway police states, it was easy to compartmentalize, to ignore the collateral damage of murder, rape, and torture. But when it hits close to home, and the hacks and exploits she’s devised are directed at her friends and family--including boy wonder Marcus Yallow, her old crush and archrival, and his entourage of naïve idealists--Masha realizes she has to choose.
And whatever choice she makes, someone is going to get hurt.

About Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow is a regular contributor to the Guardian, Locus, and many other publications. He is a special consultant to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an MIT Media Lab Research Associate and a visiting professor of Computer Science at the Open University. His award-winning novel Little Brother and its sequel Homeland were a New York Times bestsellers. His novella collection Radicalized was a CBC Best Fiction of 2019 selection. Born and raised in Canada, he lives in Los Angeles.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bradley on June 12, 2020

I've been a fan of Cory Doctorow for many years now. He has a blog and is involved with the frontier of real hacking, technological exploitation, and how we are encroached upon. Not only that, but he's also focused on how we can protect ourselves. In fact, I've been a huge fan ever since Little Broth......more

Goodreads review by Oleksandr on January 20, 2021

This is the third volume of Little Brother series, but it can be read as a standalone. The first one, Little Brother, was nominated for both Hugo and Nebula awards in 2009 and was one of my most prominent reads of 2020 with my review located here. I read is as a part of monthly reading for January 2......more

Goodreads review by Edward on June 08, 2020

I received an electronic advance copy of this book in return for a fair and honest review. What a time to have this book come out. In my mind, I was thinking trenchant and clairvoyant for this five star book, then I saw the afterword where “trenchant” was used, so you’ll have to take my word for it......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on February 09, 2021

(1) cory doctorow does incredible activism work; (2) this is a book focused on plot + ideas more so than literary execution; both of these are reasons why it's extra frustrating to me that it feels like the core tension here, masha's dilemmas, seem a bit too clean to me. like of course if you're lit......more