Bill Blunden, Violet Cheung

Behold a Pale Farce

Cyberwar, Threat Inflation, & the Malware Industrial Complex

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents a data-driven message that exposes the cyberwar media campaign being directed by the Pentagon and its patronage networks. By demonstrating that the American public is being coerced by a threat that has been blown out of proportion, this book discusses how the notion of cyberwar instills a crisis mentality that discourages formal risk assessment, making the public anxious and hence susceptible to ill-conceived solutions. With content that challenges conventional notions regarding cyber security, Behold a pale farce covers topics, including cybercrime; modern espionage; mass-surveillance systems; and the threats facing infrastructure targets such as the Federal Reserve, the stock exchange, and telecommunications, in a way that provides objective analysis rather than advocacy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Trine Day
• Seitenzahl: 441
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 136mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9781937584801
• ISBN-10: 1937584801
• Artikelnr.: 39578522

Autorenporträt

Bill Blunden is an independent investigator whose current areas of inquiry include information security, antiforensics, and institutional analysis. He is the author of several books, including Offshoring IT: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly and The Rootkit Arsenal. Violet Cheung is a professor of psychology at the University of San Francisco. Her research addresses self-control, aggression, and war. They both live in San Francisco.