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These are our favorite cyber books on hacking, espionage, crypto, surveillance, and more
These are our favorite cybersecurity books, both by fiction authors, as well as journalists and researchers.
Unlike other books that profile a startup, at least one of Clearview AI’s founders partially engaged with Hill in an attempt to tell his own side of the story, but the journalist did a lot of work to fact-check — and in some cases debunk — some of what she heard from her company sources. Menn’s book celebrates both what the hackers achieved, built, and broke along the way in the name of bettering cybersecurity, freedom of speech and expression, and privacy rights, and codifies the history of the early internet hacking scene as told by some of the very people who lived it. Over a decade ago, former NSA contractor Edward Snowden blew wide open the vast scale of the U.S. government’s global surveillance operations by leaking thousands of top secret files to a handful of journalists.
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