worm: the first digital world war
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781611855937 (1611855934)
Publish date: 2011
Publisher: Atlantic Books (UK)
Pages no: 291
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Computer Science,
Science,
Technology,
Computers,
Internet,
Mystery,
Business,
War,
Crime
Who could have imagined that the entire Internet almost went poof and no one really knew or cared about it? But it did, and the fact remains that it could still happen today, or tomorrow, or in 100 years from now. This book details the effort to stop and contain the biggest and most potentially de...
**********THIS IS A GOODREADS.COM CONTEST WIN!!!!!***********This was an interesting book. I learned a lot about a computer that I did not know. I do not know how much of the information that the author use was real/accurate. But it was still an interesting real. Some of the terms/jargon used ma...
A readable/reasonably entertaining overview of the "Cabal," a group which coalesced in response to the Conficker worm & botnet threat. Bowden organizes history and the sometimes jargon-addled world of digital history clearly. I knew just a little of this, and so--like other great longform journali...