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Cyberwars: Espionage on the Internet |
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Jean Guisnel, a journalist specializing in defense issues, takes a hard look at the controversies surrounding Internet security, striking a balance between the prophets of disaster and those who insist that everything is just fine. What's wonderful about this book is that it's extremely readable, a series of stories told by a journalist rather than a collection of dusty technical treatises. With refreshing clarity in both his outlook and his explanations, Guisnel paints a realistic picture that is neither simplistically good nor automatically bad. The threats, he shows, are real enough: security agencies willing to invade anyone's privacy, law enforcement agencies willing to blink at their legal limitation, corporations that have used cybertechnology to take industrial espionage to new heights, and new breeds of viruses that can be transmitted in once-harmless word-processor documents. But there is good news as well as bad. Battles for constitutional rights in cyberspace are being won and cryptographic improvements are making reasonable security easily accessible. And while attacks may be growing more clever, so are defenses. There may well be cause for concern, but the greatest danger, this book demonstrates, lies in remaining ignorant of the issues.
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