We Are All Targets by Matt Potter
The 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. 'Extraordinary, terrifying, ground-breaking' John Sweeney 'A deeply revealing expose disguised as a spy-thriller' Jeffrey E. Stern 'Unputdownable' Peter Pomerantsev 'A book that would be the result of Hunter S. Thompson penning an episode of Mr. Robot' Diplomatic Courier It started with an email. A message from an anonymous sender landed in journalist Matt Potter's inbox with a top-secret NATO battle plan attached - and Matt was quickly taken in for questioning by MI5 as a suspected spy. But Matt had done nothing wrong - he just received an email - and he wanted to know what had happened. How had he got the document? Who sent it to him? And why? And so began a twenty-year investigation into the origins of cyberwar and how it came to dominate the world we think we know. The result is We Are All Targets, an extraordinary story that winds through the last days of the Cold War, Balkan hacking culture, Russia, Silicon Valley and the Pentagon. It stars a celebrity hacker with missing fingers who keeps escaping from prison, FBI agents chasing the first generation of cyber mercenaries, Russian generals obsessed with a Cold War rematch, and global mafias rushing to exploit the limitless opportunities created by a fully connected world - and brings us into the here-and-now with Ukraine and the world's first Department of Meme Warfare. This is the riveting secret history of cyberwar not as governments want it to be - controlled, military-directed, discreet and sophisticated - but as it really is: anarchic, chaotic, dangerous and often thrilling, and how we are all targets, whether we like it or not.
'Gonzo journalism at its finest; a globe-trotting account presenting an almost counter-culture narrative of the emergence of cyber war and what it means in practice.. fascinating... thoroughly enjoyable' Diplomatic Courier; 'Instead of perpetual peace the internet has ushered in a new, total, transnational state of digital war that is far from virtual. This is an unputdownable travelogue into its darkest trenches.' Peter Pomerantsev, author of This Is Not Propaganda and Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible; 'A deeply revealing expose disguised as a spy-thriller, We Are All Targets pulls off that unique combination only the best narrative journalism does--it informs, educates, excites and entertains. It also terrifies' Jeffrey E. Stern, author of The Last Thousand and co-author of The 15:17 to Paris
MATT POTTER has written on global politics, security, and crime for the Washington Post, the BBC, and the Sunday Telegraph. He has reported from Russia, the Balkans, east Africa, Afghanistan, China, and Southeast Asia. His book on Russia's global network of illicit arms flights, Outlaws Inc: Flying with the World's Most Dangerous Smugglers, has been published in four different languages and serialized in twenty-seven, and is in production as a Hollywood movie. He lives in London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781913727246 |
| ISBN 10 | 1913727246 |
| Title | We Are All Targets |
| Author | Matt Potter |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Silvertail Books |
| Year published | 2023-04-13 |
| Number of pages | 340 |
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