“[A] hair-raising exposé of cybercrime…Goodman’s breathless but lucid account is good at conveying the potential perils of emerging technologies in layman’s terms, and he sprinkles in deft narratives of the heists already enabled by them…A timely wake-up call.”
“In this highly readable and exhaustive debut, [Marc Goodman] details the many ways in which hackers, organized criminals, terrorists and rogue governments are exploiting the vulnerability of our increasingly connected society…Goodman suggests solid actions to limit the impact of cybercrimes, ranging from increased technical literacy of the public to a massive government ‘Manhattan Project’ for […]
“Addictive…. [Goodman] clearly wants us never to look at our cellphones or Facebook pages in the same way again—and in this, Future Crimes succeeds marvelously.”
“If the Sony cyber-attacks shook your imagination, brace yourself for the dizzying revelations of global security expert Marc Goodman. The former FBI’s futurist-in-residence is here to tell us about hackers and bioterrorists who can hijack, dissolve, and destroy individuals, corporations, and even international communication systems with a few evil swipes. Everything, he writes, is vulnerable: […]