Nicole Perlroth - 2021 - This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends (Politics)

This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends - Nicole Perlroth - 2021

The Cyberweapons Arms Race







By: Nicole Perlroth

Narrated by: Allyson Ryan

Length: 18 hrs and 32 mins

Unabridged Audiobook

Release date: 02-09-21

Categories: Politics & Government, Intelligence & Espionage, Arms Control

Language: English

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Format: mp3 64/48 stereo







Bloomsbury presents This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends by Nicole Perlroth, read by Allyson Ryan.



Zero day: a software bug that allows a hacker to break into your devices and move around undetected. One of the most coveted tools in a spy's arsenal, a zero day has the power to silently spy on your iPhone, dismantle the safety controls at a chemical plant, alter an election and shut down the electric grid (just ask Ukraine).



For decades, under cover of classification levels and non-disclosure agreements, the United States government became the world’s dominant hoarder of zero days. US government agents paid top dollar - first thousands and later millions of dollars - to hackers willing to sell their lock-picking code and their silence.



Then the United States lost control of its hoard and the market.



Now those zero days are in the hands of hostile nations and mercenaries who do not care if your vote goes missing, your clean water is contaminated or our nuclear plants melt down.



Filled with spies, hackers, arms dealers and a few unsung heroes, written like a thriller and a reference, This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends is an astonishing feat of journalism. Based on years of reporting and hundreds of interviews, The New York Times reporter Nicole Perlroth lifts the curtain on a market in shadow, revealing the urgent threat faced by us all if we cannot bring the global cyber arms race to heel.



©2021 Nicole Perlroth (P)2021 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc



Critic reviews



"The best kind of reportage...a rollicking fun trip, front to back and an urgent call for action before our wired world spins out of our control. I've covered cybersecurity for a decade and yet paragraph after paragraph I kept wondering: 'How did she manage to figure *that* out? How is she so good?’'' (Garrett M. Graff, Wired, author of New York Times best seller The Only Plane in the Sky)



"A stemwinder of a tale of how frightening cyber weapons have been turned on their maker. Perlroth takes a complex subject that has been cloaked in techspeak and makes it dead real for the rest of us." (Kara Swisher, co-founder of Recode and host of the New York Times podcast Sway)











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