Where does fact meet fantasy in a history of the information age, FANCY BEAR GOES PHISHING by SCOTT J SHAPIRO and in a fantasy novel of magical systems, MAGICIAN AND FOOL by SUSAN WANDS
Where does fact meet fantasy in a history of the information age, and in a fantasy novel of magical systems? Fancy Bear Goes Phishing:The Dark History of the Information Age in Five Extraordinary Hacks by Scott J. Shapiro (Macmillan) confirmed my suspicions that the online world is more chaotic and dangerous than I expected. What happened to computer science, once a visionary frontier of knowledge? In the beginning academia and the defense industry fostered the new area. The idea was thinking machines would enable human advancement and make our nation safer. With unique access to talent and technology, computer science departments were galvanized for an exciting future. So where did the hackers come in? Author Shapiro (Professor of Law and Philosophy at Yale and Director of the Yale Center for Law and Philosophy, as well as Yale's Cyber Security Lab) explains how "hacker" was once a complimentary term, meaning a rare creative thinker able to write code to make somethi...