The Perfect Weapon

Zusatztext Praise for The Inheritance : '[Sanger is] a shrewd and insightful strategic thinker.' Informationen zum Autor David E. Sanger is national security correspondent for The New York Times and the bestselling author of The Inheritance , Confront and Conceal , and The Perfect Weapon . He has been a member of three teams that won the Pulitzer Prize, including in 2017 for international reporting. A regular contributor to CNN, he also teaches national security policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Klappentext The emergence of cyber warfare as a decisive force in political skulduggery, as apparent in the 2016 US election and the Sony hack, gets explored here with attention to recent Russian forays into it and the secret cyber-dens of the American and Chinese militaries. Zusammenfassung From Russia's tampering with the US election to the WannaCry hack that temporarily crippled the NHS, cyber has become the weapon of choice for democracies, dictators, and terrorists. Cheap to acquire, easily deniable, and used for a variety of malicious purposes from crippling infrastructure to sowing discord and doubt cyberweapons are re-writing the rules of warfare. In less than a decade, they have displaced terrorism and nuclear missiles as the biggest immediate threat to international security and to democracy. Here, New York Times correspondent David E. Sanger takes us from the White House Situation Room to the dens of Chinese government hackers and the boardrooms of Silicon Valley, piecing together a remarkable picture of a world now coming face-to-face with the most sophisticated and arguably most dangerous weapon ever invented. The Perfect Weapon is the dramatic story of a new era of constant sabotage, misinformation, and fear, in which everyone is a target.

Praise for The Inheritance:
'[Sanger is] a shrewd and insightful strategic thinker.'

Préface
From Russia's tampering with the US election to the WannaCry hack that temporarily crippled the NHS, cyber has become the weapon of choice for democracies, dictators, and terrorists.

Auteur

David E. Sanger is national security correspondent for The New York Times and the bestselling author of The Inheritance, Confront and Conceal, and The Perfect Weapon. He has been a member of three teams that won the Pulitzer Prize, including in 2017 for international reporting. A regular contributor to CNN, he also teaches national security policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.

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The emergence of cyber warfare as a decisive force in political skulduggery, as apparent in the 2016 US election and the Sony hack, gets explored here with attention to recent Russian forays into it and the secret cyber-dens of the American and Chinese militaries.