We are all targets : how renegade hackers invented cyber war and unleashed an age of global chaos / Matt Potter.
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- How renegade hackers invented cyber war and unleashed an age of global chaos
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The incredible untold origin story of cyberwar and the hackers who unleashed it on the world, tracing their journey from the ashes of the Cold War to the criminal underworld, governments, and even Silicon Valley.
Two years before 9/11, the United States was attacked by an unknown enemy. No advance warning was given, and it didn't target civilians. Instead, tomahawk missiles started missing their targets, US agents were swept up by hostile governments, and America's enemies seemed to know its every move in advance. A new phase of warfare--cyber war--had arrived. And within two decades it escaped Pandora's Box, plunging us into a state of total war where every day, countless cyber attacks perpetrated by states and mercenaries are reshaping the world.After receiving an anonymous email with leaked NATO battle plans during the bombardment of Kosovo, journalist Matt Potter embarked on a twenty-year investigation into the origins of cyber war and how it came to dominate the world. He uncovered its beginnings - worthy of a Bond movie - in the last days of the Cold War, as the US and its allies empowered a generation of Eastern European hackers, only to wake up in the late 90s to a new world order. It's a story that winds through Balkan hacking culture, Russia, Silicon Valley, and the Pentagon, introducing us to characters like a celebrity hacker with missing fingers who keeps escaping prison, FBI agents chasing the first generation of cyber mercenaries in the 90s, tech CEOs, and Russian generals obsessed with a Cold War rematch. Never before told, this is the riveting secret history of cyberwar not as governments want it to be - controlled, military-directed, discreet, and sophisticated - but as it really is: anarchic, chaotic, dangerous, and often thrilling.
Part I: Empire of the invisible (how the Eastern internet was born) -- Pandora's box -- Rebel code -- Enter the web -- Hacker nation -- Part II: The children's crusade (how cyber war was won a lost, and not in the way we'd imagined) -- Electronic child soldiers -- Black jet down -- Chaos particle -- The birth of a global brand -- Horror show -- alarms in Virginia -- A clash of cyber cultures -- Part III: Metastasis (how total war spread from the East and took over the West) -- The big bang -- The cyber mercenaries -- A troll is born -- Life on the wire -- The new Russian way of war -- Storms and deserts -- The Google archipelago -- Dark guest, red guest -- Ignorant armies -- darkness visible -- The end of everything.
"The incredible untold origin story of cyberwar and the hackers who unleashed it on the world, tracing their journey from the ashes of the Cold War to the criminal underworld, governments, and even Silicon Valley"-- Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-352).