Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It

The threat is here, and the future is now. An Best Book of the Month for March 2015: It won't surprise many people to read that computers, networks, and personal information are under constant attack. includes titles like "futurist-in-residence with the FBI," you've seen who's creeping through those internet pipes, and it's harrowing; his litany of cyber criminals and their multitudinous misdeeds are often shocking in their inventiveness and audacity, and Goodman brings the nightmares one after another at an almost breathless pace. Most of us install a commonly available anti-virus program, mind our clicks, and hope for the best. My only quibble is with the title, which implies a coming threat. --Jon Foro
MARC GOODMAN has spent a career in law enforcement and technology. He has served as a street police officer, senior adviser to Interpol and futurist-in-residence with the FBI. As the founder of the Future Crimes Institute and the Chair for Policy, Law, and Ethics at Silicon Valley’s Singularity University, he continues to investigate the intriguing and often terrifying intersection of science and security, uncovering nascent threats and combating the darker sides of technology.

To date, no computer has been created that could not be hacked—a sobering fact given our radical dependence on these machines for everything from our nation’s power grid to air traffic control to financial services.      Yet, as ubiquitous as technology seems today, just over the horizon is a tidal wave of scientific progress that will leave our heads spinning. But the technological bedrock upon which we are building our common future is deeply unstable and, like a house of cards, can come crashing down at any moment.     Future Crimes provides a mind-blowing glimpse into the dark side of technological innovation and the unintended consequences of our connected world. But with greater connections come greater risks. Goodman offers a way out with clear steps we must take to survive the progress unfolding before us. Welcome to the Internet of Things, a living, breathing, global information grid where every physical object will be online. Provocative, thrilling, and ultimately empowering, Future Crimes will serve as an urgent call to action that shows how we can take back control over our own devices and harness technology’s tremendous power for the betterment of humanity—before it’s too late.. Hackers can activate baby monitors to spy on families, thieves are analyzing social media posts to plot home invasions, and stalkers are exploiting the GPS on

Snitching refrigerators. Snooping cable boxes. GPS-tracking underwear. The "Internet of Things" There are some places where the Internet just doesn't belong. This book tells of pacemakers being hacked, planes being landed remotely, and power grids shut down by kids. And the stories get much, much freakier. I've long wondered why society has rushed to make everything web-connected without questioning (or preventing) the very real dangers such technology exposes us to daily. And apparently this is just the beginning, as our e. Steven Ramirez said Writing a High-Tech Thriller? Buy This Book!. Okay, you can read a bunch of reviews about how scary and real this book is—about how it will open your eyes to what is really going on in cyber-hell, and how we’re probably all going to die, broke, exposed and asking for our mommies. But I decided to go in a different direction with this review. Yes, this book scared the crap out of me with its thorough exploration of the Dark Net and all of the sleazy characters who. rubyclaire_nc said A warning-hopefully in time. This is an important book, albeit scary and overwhelming. I never knew anything about the Dark Web before; now I know. Dread Pirate Roberts, the creator of the Silk Road marketplace, was sentenced to life in prison today - there will undoubtedly be 10 more to take his place. As the author states, problems of cybercrime and cybersecurity are for governments and large corporations to solve. I wish there were more in the book about