Scott J. Shapiro is a professor of law and philosophy at Yale Law School and the director of the Yale Center for Law and Philosophy and its CyberSecurity Lab. He is also the author of Legality and the coauthor, with Oona Hathaway, of The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World.
"Shapiro is funny and unflaggingly fascinated by his subject,
luring even the nonspecialist into technical descriptions of coding
by teasing out connections between computer programming and, say,
the paradox of Achilles and the tortoise . . . A single paragraph
moves nimbly from Putin to Descartes to The Matrix . . . Readers [.
. .] will find that their expectations have been entertainingly
subverted." --Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times "Scott Shapiro is
a pretty rare bird--an eminent legal scholar who is also a geek . .
. [He] manages to carve a readable path through the conceptual
undergrowth . . . [Fancy Bear Goes Phishing is] an impressive
achievement . . . [An] absorbing tour of cyberspace's netherworld."
--John Naughton, The Observer "[Shapiro] masterfully blends
consideration of two sorts of code, software and legal . . . His
narrative zips between technical explanations, legal reasoning and
the ideas of thinkers including René Descartes and Alan Turing . .
. [Shapiro] succeeds in making [hacking] intelligible to
non-specialist readers." --The Economist "Scott Shapiro's lively
history . . . [uses] vivid case studies to dramatise a technically
complex subject . . . His chronological big five hacks are
springboards for the stories of pioneers such as . . . John von
Neumann . . . or a deft exploration of how virus writers exploit
cognitive biases . . . His impish humour and freewheeling erudition
suit a world saturated in pop culture . . . All [hackers] have
something in common . . . they see it as a game. Shapiro's
achievement is to tell you how it is played." --Dorian Lynskey, The
Guardian "Gripping . . . Fancy Bear Goes Phishing offers
level-headed suggestions to reduce cybercrime, decrease
cyber-espionage and mitigate the risks of cyberwar, arguing that we
need to move beyond an obsession with technical fixes and focus
instead on the outdated and vulnerable upcode that shapes the
shoddy downcode we live with now." --Richard Lea, The Wall Street
Journal
"A lively and multidisciplinary critique of America's often
neglectful and sometimes malign stewardship of the internet."
--Vadim Nikitin, London Review of Books "This scintillating book [.
. . ] manages to hack the reader . . . [Fancy Bear Goes Phishing]
is a profound work on the idea of technology . . . If you think
that books involving discussions of law must be boring, then
Shapiro is a good antidote since he is a very humanist and humane
writer . . . Erudite, witty, and arch." --Stuart Kelly, The
Scotsman "Like Virgil guiding Dante through the bowels of a
medieval Renaissance Hell, Scott J. Shapiro steers readers of Fancy
Bear Goes Phishing through . . . the feral realm of cyberhacking .
. . [Readers] will walk away with enhanced insight into our
disquieting digital environment . . . a wise book." --Howard
Schneider, The Progressive "Ingenious coding, buggy software, and
gullibility take the spotlight in this colorful retrospective of
hacking . . . Shapiro's snappy prose manages the extraordinary feat
of describing hackers' intricate coding tactics and the flaws they
exploit in a way that is accessible and captivating even to readers
who don't know Python from JavaScript. The result is a fascinating
look at the anarchic side of cyberspace." --Publishers Weekly "This
is an engrossing read . . . An authoritative, disturbing
examination of hacking, cybercrime and techno-espionage." --Kirkus
Reviews "The question of trust is increasingly central to
computing, and in turn to our world at large. Fancy Bear Goes
Phishing offers a whirlwind history of cybersecurity and its many
open problems that makes for unsettling, absolutely riveting,
and--for better or worse--necessary reading." --Brian Christian,
author of Algorithms to Live By and The Alignment Problem "Fancy
Bear Goes Phishing is an essential book about high-tech crime:
lively, sometimes funny, readable, and accessible. Shapiro
highlights the human side of hacking and computer crime, and the
deep relevance of software to our lives." --Bruce Schneier, author
of A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules and How
to Bend them Back "Scott Shapiro's Fancy Bear Goes Phishing fills a
critical hole in cybersecurity history, providing an engaging read
that explains just why the internet is as vulnerable as it is.
Accessible for regular readers, yet still fun for experts, this
delightful book expertly traces the challenge of securing our
digital lives and how the optimism of the internet's early pioneers
has resulted in an online world today threatened by spies,
criminals, and over-eager teen hackers." --Garrett Graff, co-author
of The Dawn of the Code War
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