), and the book's general take on the vulnerability of our entire digital infrastructure is better stated in a few hundred words here. Wired Magazine has a corrective on the book's take on the Dark Web (“The Dark Web as You Know It Is a Myth by Joseph Cox. Many of its claims are obviously overblown. A little editing could've shaved a quarter if not half the length off this thing, without sacrificing any information. I’ve not even gotten to the content yet! It’s repetitive. It is both an alarm and a wake-up call, a warning and a dire prediction, a call to arms and to action.Īnd it is very, very fond of quoting Sun Tzu. Over and over it repeats its assertions and claims, redundantly.

Its deeply beheld love of adverbs and concomitant utilization of exponentially and stupefyingly complicating adjectives is impossibly difficult to avoid, as is its blind insistence on using the word ‘data’ in the plural, even in instances when any reasonable native speaker would use it in the singular. It’s got a strictly-defined plethora of the word ‘plethora’ loosely-defined. It’s got more mixed metaphors than a 50-car pile up of smoothie blenders has spilled milk, and more cliches than a plethora of dystopian futures unfolding like bad origami. Future Crimes is a call to action for better security measures worldwide, but most importantly, will empower readers to protect themselves against these looming technological threats - before it's too late. Reading like a sci-fi thriller, but based in startling fact, Goodman raises tough questions about the expanding role of technology in our lives. In Future Crimes, Marc Goodman rips open his database of hundreds of real cases to give us front-row access to these impending perils.

This is just the beginning of the tsunami of technological threats coming our way. Meanwhile, 3D printers produce AK-47s, terrorists can download the recipe for the Ebola virus, and drug cartels are building drones. It's disturbingly easy to activate baby cam monitors to spy on families, pacemakers can be hacked to deliver a lethal jolt, and thieves are analyzing your social media in order to determine the best time for a home invasion. Today's criminals are stealing identities, draining online bank-accounts and wiping out computer servers. Criminals are often the earliest, and most innovative, adopters of technology and modern times have lead to modern crimes. Technological advances have benefited our world in immeasurable ways, but there is an ominous flipside.

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