The Hacked World Order, Adam Segal
The Hacked World Order, Adam Segal
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The Hacked World Order
How Nations Fight, Trade, Maneuver, and Manipulate in the Digital Age

Author: Adam Segal

Narrator: Don Hagen

Unabridged: 10 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 03/01/2016


Synopsis

The Internet today connects roughly 2.7 billion people around the world, and booming interest in the "Internet of things" could result in 75 billion devices connected to the web by 2020. The myth of cyberspace as a digital utopia has long been put to rest. Governments are increasingly developing smarter ways of asserting their national authority in cyberspace in an effort to control the flow, organization, and ownership of information.

In The Hacked World Order, Adam Segal shows how governments use the web to wage war and spy on, coerce, and damage each other. Israel is intent on derailing the Iranian nuclear weapons program. India wants to prevent Pakistani terrorists from using their Blackberries to coordinate attacks. Brazil has plans to lay new fiber cables and develop satellite links so its Internet traffic no longer has to pass through Miami. China does not want to be dependent on the West for its technology needs. These new digital conflicts have as yet posed no physical threat—no one has ever died from a cyberattack—but they serve to undermine the integrity of complex systems like power grids, financial institutions, and security networks.

Segal describes how cyberattacks have the potential to produce unintended and unimaginable problems for anyone with an Internet connection and an email account. State-backed hacking initiatives can shut down, sabotage trade strategies, steal intellectual property, sow economic chaos, and paralyze whole countries.The Hacked World Order exposes how the Internet has ushered in a new era of geopolitical maneuvering and reveals its tremendous and terrifying implications for our economic livelihood, security, and personal identity.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Eric_W on July 21, 2019

As I write this John Bolton and Trump seem to be planning a major war with Iran. They are not paying attention to the incredible damage that can be done by state-sponsored or even independent actors to infrastructure by cyber-attacks. Iran caused millions in damage to Saudi oilfield computers; Russi......more

Goodreads review by Kamal on May 12, 2018

Someday in near future, this book has the potential of being a history/reference book for cyberwarfare... While most of us are broadly aware of the developments in the area, the book lists out the order in which events unfolded, who hacked whom, what was gained and may be what was lost in this pursu......more

Goodreads review by Sujit on January 30, 2020

I do have a keen interest in cyber security and I do spend some of my spare time with this hobby. So my rating for this book is biased to my interest. This book is is almost like a summarised report of cyber-warfare. Its indeed a critical responsibility to publish these sensitive information and the......more

Goodreads review by Martyn on March 30, 2016

Very pro-American outlook on the problem of protecting national security and having to include private companies who both innovate and share the same networks as government agencies. Hence their need to coop hackers into national security. But his argument about American influence doesn't properly d......more

Goodreads review by Jari on August 10, 2019

The book is explaining how internet (or cyber if you will) has changed from open and free platform to a field of politics, espionage and information warfare. Interesting, although sometimes a bit dry, history of change from USA point of view. Interesting analysis of USA, China and Russia strategy an......more