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Learn moreThe incredible untold origin story of cyberwar and the hackers who unleashed it on the world, tracing their journey from the ashes of the Cold War to the criminal underworld, governments, and even Silicon Valley.
Two years before 9/11, the United States was attacked by an unknown enemy. No advance warning was given, and it didn't target civilians. Instead, tomahawk missiles started missing their targets, US agents were swept up by hostile governments, and Americaās enemies seemed to know its every move in advance. A new phase of warfareācyber warāhad arrived. And within two decades it escaped Pandora's Box, plunging us into a state of total war where every day, countless cyber attacks perpetrated by states and mercenaries are reshaping the world.After receiving an anonymous email with leaked NATO battle plans during the bombardment of Kosovo, journalist Matt Potter embarked on a twenty-year investigation into the origins of cyber war and how it came to dominate the world. He uncovered its beginnings ā worthy of a Bond movie ā in the last days of the Cold War, as the US and its allies empowered a generation of Eastern European hackers, only to wake up in the late 90s to a new world order. It'sĀ a story that winds through Balkan hacking culture, Russia, Silicon Valley, and the Pentagon, introducing us to characters likeĀ a celebrity hacker with missing fingers who keeps escaping prison, FBI agents chasing the first generation of cyber mercenaries in the 90s, tech CEOs, andĀ Russian generals obsessed with a Cold War rematch.Ā Never before told, this is the riveting secret history of cyberwar not as governments want it to be ā controlled, military-directed, discreet, and sophisticated ā but as it really is: anarchic, chaotic, dangerous, and often thrilling.
Matt Potter writes and presents on global politics, security, and crime for the Washington Post, the BBC, Telegraph, London Evening Standard, Men's Journal, and the Discovery Channel. He has reported for the BBC from Russia, the Balkans, the USA, Afghanistan, Japan, China, and Southeast Asia, and he has won two Sony Awards for radio. As a journalist, his nose for the unusual has seen his writing appear in places as diverse as theĀ DailyĀ Telegraph,Ā Golf Monthly,Ā Esquire,Ā SundayĀ Telegraph,Ā Jack,Ā Maxim, theĀ Irish ExaminerĀ andĀ Q, and his stories on cocaine trafficking in Latin America have been published in Russian, Spanish and English. As a journalist in Belgrade, he broke the story of the NATO "spy" giving away secrets to Serbian forces on the web. His 2011 bookĀ Outlaws IncĀ has been published in 4 different languages and more than 17 countries, and won praise from places as diverse asĀ The Literary Review, BBC5Live, theĀ Washington Post,Ā BizarreĀ magazine and Fox News. For almost two decades, he has ghostwritten for world leaders, Hollywood actors, CEOs, and rock stars. He lives in London.
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