Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World - Softcover

Bruce Schneier

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393357449 ISBN 13: 9780393357448

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019

Synopsis

"Schneier skilfully guides readers through serious attacks that have happened already- and moves on to those he believes are just over the horizon...This book is convincing, but not comforting." Financial Times

We have created the ultimate hive-mind robot: an Internet of interconnected devices that senses, thinks and acts. Bruce Schneier calls it the "World-Sized Web". It includes everything from driverless cars to smart thermostats, from billboards that respond to specific people to drones equipped with their own behavioural algorithms. While the World-Sized Web carries enormous potential, Schneier argues that we are unprepared for the vulnerabilities it brings. Cutting-edge digital attackers can now crash your car, pacemaker and home security system and everyone else's.

Click Here to Kill Everybody explores the risks and security implications of the World-Sized Web and lays out common-sense policies that will allow us to enjoy the benefits of this new omnipotent age without surrendering ourselves entirely to our creation.

About this title

About the Author

Bruce Schneier is "one of the world's foremost security experts" (Wired), a "security guru" (Economist) and the best-selling author of thirteen books. He speaks and writes regularly for major media venues, and his newsletter and blog reach more than 250,000 people worldwide. He is a fellow and lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society; the CTO of IBM Resilient; and a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Access Now, and the Tor Project.

Edition details

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393357449
• ISBN 13: 9780393357448
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336