Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War
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| Rating | : | 4.59 (519 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1501140833 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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Essential reading on the history of U.S. cyber warfare I spent over two years producing a feature documentary for Alex Gibney called "Zero Days," about the use of cyber means in warfare. The day before our premiere at the Berlin Film Festival, the New York Times reported on one of our findings, the discovery of a classified program at U.S. Cyber Command and NSA, code. "The Dark Territory of Cyber Space War and what lies within, beneath and more. It's an Excellent View by Fred Kaplan!" according to Carbonlord. After recently reading Robert Gates: Passion for Leadership book, I was enthralled with this Fred Kaplan tome, “Dark Territory”, especially since Robert Gates (Former Defense Secretary and Director of the CIA) referred to the online cyber world as the Dark Territory. Its aptly named and has long been . "Dark Territory Helps us Map our Way into Uncharted Terrain" according to Etienne RP. In 198Dark Territory Helps us Map our Way into Uncharted Terrain Etienne RP In 1984, a young French engineer and his literary associate published a technology thriller titled Softwar. In the novel, a secretive US agency named the National Software Agency or NSA implants a smart bomb in a supercomputer exported by the French government for a meteorological station in the Soviet Union. The. , a young French engineer and his literary associate published a technology thriller titled Softwar. In the novel, a secretive US agency named the National Software Agency or NSA implants a smart bomb in a supercomputer exported by the French government for a meteorological station in the Soviet Union. The
One of the deep insights of Dark Territory is the historical understanding by both theorists and practitioners that cybersecurity is a dynamic game of offense and defense, each function oscillating in perpetual competition.” (The Washington Post)“An important, disturbing, and gripping history arguing convincingly that, as of 2015, no defense exists against a resourceful cyberattack.” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review)“Kaplan dives into a topic which could end up being just as transformational to national security affairs as the nuclear age was. pre-eminence in the network connectivity that makes us the most vulnerable target in the world to cyber sabotage.” (Washington Independent Review of Books)“Pulitzer-prizewinning journalist Fred Kaplan’s taut, urgent history traces the dual trajectory of digital surveillance and intervention, and hi
A former Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The Boston Globe, he is also the author of 1959: The Year Everything Changed, Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power. . Fred Kaplan writes the "War Stories" column in Slate and has also written many articles on politics and culture in The New York Times, The Washington Post,
As cyber-attacks dominate front-page news, as hackers displace terrorists on the list of global threats, and as top generals warn of a coming cyber war, few books are more timely and enlightening than Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War, by Slate columnist and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Fred Kaplan. Kaplan probes the inner corridors of the National Security Agency, the beyond-top-secret cyber units in the Pentagon, the "information warfare" squads of the military services, and the national security debates in the White House, to tell this never-before-told story of the officers, policymakers, scientists, and spies who devised this new form of warfare and who have been p