This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race

This is an interesting effort — Ms. Perlroth is a skilled writer dealing with a complex set of topics. She spends considerable amount of time dealing with the drama of cybersecurity and cyber warfare. The author does provide some useful interviews with some cyber specialists, government figures and mercenary elements involved in intrusion of information systems. Unfortunately she omits several well less known cyber attacks and the various roles of non-state actors in our present cybersecurity environment. This is a useful read for nonprofessional cybersecurity readers. It's unfortunate that she sometimes renders some sensationalist opinions that are not backed by appropriate facts. In sum, I would recommend this book however, I urge some caution because some of her facts have scant attribution. I respect your opinions however in cybersecurity we have to make a clear differentiation between facts and opinions. I enjoy her skilled writing and varied perspectives.

I looked forward to receiving this book, but now I cannot return it fast enough. This is a retelling of old news about hackers and the dangers of our electronic dependent world, but no news.The 61-page endnotes are organized by chapter and nothing else. Good luck finding a reference tied back to the narrative in a useful manner, which is supposedly what endnotes are designed for. Not in this book.The author apparently hates the NSA, CIA, FBI, and many other US government agencies she believes are responsible for unleashing the evil internet and hackers on the world. The totalitarian nations have merely stolen the tools of destruction from the USA and now endanger us all. She could not resist the impulse to bash President Trump and blames him for numerous atrocities against humankind that are baseless and useless. And yes, he is/was colluding with the Russians in spite of evidence to the contrary.What a waste of good paper.

Too much about author, and terrible writing.

Fantastic work by a consistently fantastic journalist, Perlroth gives a great deal of detailed accounts of the current threat landscape and how it can affect all of us. If you enjoyed Andy Greenberg's Sandworm or Kim Zetter's Countdown to Zero Day, this book is going to earn its place on the same shelf.

I lead one of the largest cybersecurity firms in Europe and can confidently say this Author has no idea what she is writing about. If you want to read a legitimate well-researched and well-reasoned account on cyberwarfare, read Countdown to Zero Day. It is supported by well-known security researchers and hackers, i.e. Mitnick.This book is nothing but an ignorantly biased version of US mass media, i.e. NY Times account.I’m intimately familiar (technically) with the events she’s describing and what she presents in her book is largely just another West-centric propaganda and holds little to no truth or substance. You might as well just read a political science fiction novel.