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This is how they tell me the world ends, the cyber weapons arms race /, Nicole Perlroth

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This is how they tell me the world ends

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Nicole Perlroth

the cyber weapons arms race /

From The New York Times cybersecurity reporter Nicole Perlroth, the untold story of the cyberweapons market-the most secretive, invisible, government-sponsored market on earth-and a terrifying first look at a new kind of global warfare. Zero day: a software bug that allows a hacker to break in and scamper through the world's computer networks invisibly until discovered. One of the most coveted tools in a spy's arsenal, a zero day has the power to tap into any iPhone, dismantle safety controls at a chemical plant, and shut down the power in an entire nation-just ask the Ukraine. Zero days are the blood diamonds of the security trade, pursued by nation states, defense contractors, cybercriminals, and security defenders alike. In this market, governments aren't regulators; they are clients-paying huge sums to hackers willing to turn over gaps in the Internet, and stay silent about them. For decades, the United States was the only player in this market. Now, it is just the biggest. Our primary adversaries are now in this market too, each with its own incentive to exploit the Internet's vast security holes for their own spy operations, or all-out cyberwar. This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends is cybersecurity reporter Nicole Perlroth's discovery, unpacked. A intrepid journalist unravels an opaque, code-driven market from the outside in-encountering spies, hackers, arms dealers, mercenaries, and a few unsung heroes along the way. As the stakes get higher and higher in the rush to push the world's critical infrastructure online, This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends is the urgent and alarming discovery of one of the world's most extreme threats

Intro -- More Praise for This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Contents -- Epigraph -- Author's Note -- Prologue -- Part I: Mission Impossible -- 1. Closet of Secrets -- 2. The Fucking Salmon -- Part II: The Capitalists -- 3. The Cowboy -- 4. The First Broker -- 5. Zero-Day Charlie -- Part III: The Spies -- 6. Project Gunman -- 7. The Godfather -- 8. The Omnivore -- 9. The Rubicon -- 10. The Factory -- Part IV: The Mercenaries -- 11. The Kurd -- 12. Dirty Business -- 13. Guns for Hire -- Part V: The Resistance -- 14. Aurora -- 15. Bounty Hunters16. Going Dark -- Part VI: The Twister -- 17. Cyber Gauchos -- 18. Perfect Storm -- 19. The Grid -- Part VII: Boomerang -- 20. The Russians Are Coming -- 21. The Shadow Brokers -- 22. The Attacks -- 23. The Backyard -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- A Note on the Author -- Copyright