Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War

Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War

â€œAn important, disturbing, and gripping historyâ€ (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), the never-before-told story of the computer scientists and the NSA, Pentagon, and White House policymakers who invent and employ cyber warsâ€”where every country can be a major power player and every hacker a mass destroyer.

In June 1983, President Reagan watched the movie War Games, in which a teenager unwittingly hacks the Pentagon, and asked his top general if the scenario was plausible. The general said it was. This set in motion the first presidential directive on computer security.

From the 1991 Gulf War to conflicts in Haiti, Serbia, Syria, the former Soviet republics, Iraq, and Iran, where cyber warfare played a significant role, Dark Territory chronicles a little-known past that shines an unsettling light on our future. Fred Kaplan probes the inner corridors of the National Security Agency, the beyond-top-secret cyber units in the Pentagon, the â€œinformation warfareâ€ squads of the military services, and the national security debates in the White House to reveal the details of the officers, policymakers, scientists, and spies who devised this new form of warfare and who have been planningâ€”and (more often than people know) fightingâ€”these wars for decades.

â€œAn eye-opening history of our governmentâ€™s efforts to effectively manage our national security in the face of the largely open global communications network established by the World Wide Webâ€¦.Dark Territory is a page-turner [and] consistently surprisingâ€ (The New York Times).
Country USA
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2024-02-13
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2024-02-13
Format	Kindle eBook

Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War

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