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list price: $10.99
edition:eBook
category: True Crime
published: Sep 2011
ISBN:9781770890480
publisher:
House of Anansi Press Inc
Description
Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize and the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction Award
The benefits of living in a digital, globalised society are enormous; so too are the dangers. The world has become a law enforcer's nightmare and every criminal's dream. We bank online, shop online, date, learn, work and live online. But have the institutions that keep us safe on the streets learned to protect us in the burgeoning digital world? Have we become complacent about our personal security -- sharing our thoughts, beliefs and the details of our daily lives with anyone who cares to relieve us of them?
In this fascinating and compelling book, Misha Glenny, author of the international bestseller McMafia, explores the three fundamental threats facing us in the twenty-first century: cyber crime, cyber warfare and cyber industrial espionage. Governments and the private sector are losing billions of dollars each year, fighting an ever-morphing, often invisible, and highly intelligent new breed of criminal: the hacker.
Glenny has travelled and trawled the world. And by exploring the rise and fall of the criminal website, DarkMarket, he has uncovered the most vivid, alarming and illuminating stories. Whether JiLsi or Matrix, Iceman, Master Splynter or Lord Cyric; whether Detective Sergeant Chris Dawson in Bolton or Agent Keith Mularski in Pittsburgh, Glenny has tracked down and interviewed all the players -- the criminals, the geeks, the police, the security experts and the victims -- and he places everyone and everything in a rich brew of politics, economics and history.
The result is simply unputdownable. DarkMarket is authoritative and completely engrossing. It's a must-read for everyone who uses a computer: the essential crime book for our times.
Awards
- Short-listed, The Orwell Prize
- Short-listed, CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction Award
- Commended, Globe and Mail Top 100 Book
Editorial Reviews
Misha Glenny describes the battle [against cyber crime] in chilling detail.
— Toronto Star
To date, the best insight we've got into the arcane world of cybercrime is DarkMarket.
— Guardian
Misha Glenny's journey through the undergrowth of cybercrime is a dark read. But this most assiduous of writers manages a deft feat. He has turned a subject that could be geekish, dull and frightening into an enjoyable page-turner . . . Glenny presents a host of extraordinary characters as he tells the story of the past 20 years of online crime . . . This is a gripping tale, brilliantly researched.
— Sunday Times
... insightful and entertaining ... highly readable ...
— Globe and Mail
[Misha Glenny is] a master reporter...a truly remarkable story.
— Financial Times
Nobody writes more compellingly about contemporary international crime than the author of McMafia. Misha Glenny combines a terrific pace with the best journalistic practice and stylish writing . . . Illuminating and terrifying.
— Globe and Mail
... a nonfiction page-turner filled with suspense and intrigue ... what a story ...
— Irish Times
Glenny accomplishes the herculean task of converting cryptic and tangled information into short, gripping chapters that often read like a high-tech thriller.
— Publishers Weekly
A complex, eye-opening account ... scary reading.
— Kirkus
...required reading for anyone who wants to understand what's going on in the world today...DarkMarket works both as a thrilling read and as a primer for cyber self-defense. Highly recommended.
— Tyee
...an engrossing yarn...DarkMarket offers an eminently readable, witty narrative that sustains suspense until the very last pages.
— Wall Street Journal
[Misha Glenny] shines a light into a shady underworld...
— Irish Independent
. . . a fast-paced journey through the murkiness of the Internet underworld . . . compelling . . .
— New Scientist
[Misha Glenny] possesses a savant-like ability to make startling links, and the investigative jones to follow up any far-flung lead right to the bitter end ... Thanks to DarkMarket, the world flitting beneath our Facebook pages and Twitter feeds is illuminated.
— National Post
...fascinating...
— Telegraph
Glenny has created a seriously thought-provoking work.
— City AM
... [Misha] Glenny is an expert ... all the things you think you know about cybercrime will be forever changed by Dark Market.
— Wallet Pop Canada
... highly readable ... fascinating ...
— Telegraph
DarkMarket covers more physical territory than a Bourne movie ... riveting and comprehensive ...
— Guardian
[DarkMarket commingles] politics, economics and culture...intriguing...
— T, the New York Times Style Magazine
Glenny constructs short, fast-paced chapters like movie scenes shot on location, then knits them together to form the full picture ... [he] does an admirable job of explaining the technical issues and dividing the complex story into understandable pieces.
— Winnipeg Free Press
