This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends Book Reviews

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Must read. Excellent and well researched. Good for lay people who need their hand held to understand the complex nature of vulnerability exploitation. As a student of information security this book has blazed a trail for me. If you needed some direction to decide what side of the tracks you need to be on this work will help. I encourage anyone interested in national security, intelligence, counterintelligence, and politics to inform yourself on the nature of the battlefield of the future that is ALREADY here. I also strongly encourage lawmakers who wish to seriously solve the cyberwarfare dilemma in a time of escalation with Americas adversaries, to take a serious look at the issues clearly laid out in this book. We are alot closer to midnight than we think (personal opinion). It's time to recognize that accountability is only useful when you have a properly functioning system that was mismanaged. We as a nation dont even have the most rudimentary understanding of what that system should even look like! When you calculate how much money warfare costs for our adversaries. The cost of paying hackers to find invisible doors to code around our firewalls is chump change. We foolishly, hurriedly connected everything we could to the internet with millions of software programs that have dozens of exploitable zero days each. To solve the problem, It's not how much money you have. It's how many hackers you can find to fend off the bad guys. America will need alot of good ethical hackers and a solid game plan to work our way out of this massive security oversight and screwup... I may just be a Jarhead but national security is in my blood. I believe this country minus a few unsung heroes is practically flying blind. I'm glad I bought this book.

Deeply Unsettling. Necessary read to understand cyber warfare, information assurance, and the dangers of NOT downloading those iOS software updates! In a world where we are once again talking about the threat of nuclear annihilation, don’t forget cyberattacks are just as capable of ending the world.

Superficial and one-sided. The author provided a superficial overview of the technology and a one-sided explanation of events. Much of the book devolved into a hectoring editorial that overwhelmed the good sections of the story. The author would have benefited from a more balanced narration of events. If you are interested in this topic, “Sandworm” by Andy Greenberg and “Countdown to Zero Day” by Kim Zetter are both more balanced, more informative and provide better explanations of the technologies.

A must-read book!!. I loved how the author presented the evolution of cyber warfare. Since a journalist writes it, she can convey the importance of cybersecurity in lay terms. It also gives us a glimpse at how cybersecurity has become a business where people want to make money, even when it means providing powerful tools to authoritarian countries. As a result, the US seems to have lost its technological advantage. It is a scary reality!

A waste. Ultimately, I would suggest reading Thomas Dullien’s review in blog post for more thorough thoughts, but in addition to other items I had, there are a number of factual inaccuracies here about technical matters (for which the writer herself later tweeted that Dullien had a “bruised male ego” for his criticism). But I actually read this before I found that review and in addition to any of that... I’m really sick of these sort of tech culture writers releasing something that’s really more about them than the advertised subject matter. It just reeks of vanity. I would recommend Andy Greenberg’s “Sandworm” instead.

The most important book I’ve read in years. This not fiction. This is truly frightening. Our interconnection via the Internet may well be our undoing. The evidence of data exploits being created around the world is overwhelming. “Just one mistake” could set it all off: election results, power grid control, banking systems, hospitals and emergency services, entire sections of the country and world’s infrastructure could, and have been threatened or destroyed. If you extrapolate all this - and the book ends in early 2021 - to upcoming elections and beyond, and to relations with other countries (think Iran, China, Russia) it is hard to believe that we are not in for cataclysmic events caused by disruption to computers systems upon which the world increasingly relies. And the indictment, in this book, of our national leaders in recent years, shows how politics and public sentiment have been manipulated, and threaten us all. Fascinating, powerful and exceedingly well written and documented.

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