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lightreads) wrote2019-07-14 08:01 pm
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At War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex by Shane Harris
At War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex
3/5. What it says on the tin, except with more diversions into corporate cybersecurity and the private side of the counter espionage industry than I was expecting. Fun background reading for me (I'm sort of orthogonal to the industry, long story), punctuated by "oh hey, it's that guy," and an occasional whistle at something particularly clever. E.g. the hacker who figured out how to pinpoint a server by remotely overclocking it to raise its temperature, which would imperceptibly change its timekeeping because physics, and then finding that clock that was the right microscopic amount off. Yikes.
3/5. What it says on the tin, except with more diversions into corporate cybersecurity and the private side of the counter espionage industry than I was expecting. Fun background reading for me (I'm sort of orthogonal to the industry, long story), punctuated by "oh hey, it's that guy," and an occasional whistle at something particularly clever. E.g. the hacker who figured out how to pinpoint a server by remotely overclocking it to raise its temperature, which would imperceptibly change its timekeeping because physics, and then finding that clock that was the right microscopic amount off. Yikes.