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    DarkMarket: Cyberthieves, Cybercops, and You
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    DarkMarket: Cyberthieves, Cybercops, and You

    Written by Misha Glenny

    Narrated by Jonathan Cowley

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    "This extraordinarily powerful book demonstrates how utterly we lack the shared supranational tools needed to fight cybercrime. Essential reading." --Roberto Saviano, author of Gommorah

    The benefits of living in a digital, globalized society are enormous; so too are the dangers. The world has become a law enforcer's nightmare and every criminal's dream. We bank online; shop online; date, learn, work and live online. But have the institutions that keep us safe on the streets learned to protect us in the burgeoning digital world? Have we become complacent about our personal security-sharing our thoughts, beliefs and the details of our daily lives with anyone who might care to relieve us of them?
     
    In this fascinating and compelling book, Misha Glenny, author of the international best seller McMafia, explores the three fundamental threats facing us in the twenty-first century: cybercrime, cyberwarfare and cyberindustrial espionage. Governments and the private sector are losing billions of dollars each year fighting an ever-morphing, often invisible and often supersmart new breed of criminal: the hacker.
     
    Glenny has traveled and trawled the world. By exploring the rise and fall of the criminal website DarkMarket he has uncovered the most vivid, alarming and illuminating stories. Whether JiLsi or Matrix, Iceman, Master Splynter or Lord Cyric; whether Detective Sergeant Chris Dawson in Scunthorpe, England, or Agent Keith Mularski in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Glenny has tracked down and interviewed all the players-the criminals, the geeks, the police, the security experts and the victims-and he places everyone and everything in a rich brew of politics, economics and history.
     
    The result is simply unputdownable. DarkMarket is authoritative and completely engrossing. It's a must-read for everyone who uses a computer: the essential crime book for our times.


    From the Hardcover edition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateOct 4, 2011
    ISBN9780307966759
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    • 1/5
      This is so inaccurate it's criminal. The author is so out of his depth this reads like some spoof.

      Now let me get back to phishing my hacker trojan on my alienware laptop (a must have hacker accessory) so I can worm a pdf reader app into a shell and download a cracker onto my dark site through an encrypted ICQ channel.

      If you read this sentence without choking (the alienware comment is a genuine line from the book, it made me giggle, so did "buffer overload") then it might be safe for you to read this book but why? There are dozens of better books: Fatal System Error, Countdown to Zero Day, Future Crimes, Spam Nation. Short of this book being some elaborate joke I don't understand how the publisher let this through. It's the reportage equivalent of a CSI: Miami episode. I also really dislike the dramatisation (i.e. fabrication) of the details that are patently unknowable.

      If there was a technology consultant proofreading this I assume his head exploded and they just assumed that since he didn't get back it meant the book was flawless.

    • 4/5
      Written like a thriller. More scary though as it is true! Well worth a read if you are interested in internet stories and crime.
    • 4/5
      Extremely readable - in this digital age when we are all connected to the internet and rely on banks and other institutions which use the web as a matter of course, we should be more aware of what goes on on the 'dark' side. This book both frightened me and also made me annoyed that I am such an upright citizen that it has never occurred to me to take advantage of the web to make money illegally, when many many others are doing so and getting away with it! Misha Glenny ( I think he always writes well informed/researched books) has managed to put the whole cyber-crime issue into a really digestible form for a lay-person such as myself. I have been boring people at dinner parties ever since I read this book!