From Russia's tampering with the US election to the WannaCry hack that temporarily crippled Britain's NHS, cyber-attacks have the potential to wreak global devastation.
David E. Sanger is national security correspondent for The New York Times and the bestselling author of The Inheritance, Confront and Conceal, and The Perfect Weapon. He has been a member of three teams that won the Pulitzer Prize, including in 2017 for international reporting. A regular contributor to CNN, he also teaches national security policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
’In his new book, The Perfect Weapon, Sanger offers a panoramic
view of the rapidly evolving world of cyber-conflict. He covers
incidents from the covert U.S. cyber-campaign to sabotage Iran’s
nuclear program (a story we know about largely because of Sanger’s
diligent reporting) to Edward Snowden’s epic heist of National
Security Agency data. And yes, there’s also plenty of background on
Russia’s active measures during the 2016 campaign. But there’s also
a wealth of gripping material on stories that have probably been
missed by the broader public … It all adds up to a persuasive
argument for the truth of the book’s title.’ —Christian Caryl, The
Washington Post
`[The Perfect Weapon is] an important – and deeply sobering – new
book about cyberwarfare.’ —Nicholas Kristof, New York Times
`An encyclopedic account of policy-relevant happenings in the
cyberworld … the most comprehensive, readable source of information
and insight about the policy quandaries that modern information
technology and its destructive potential have spawned.’ —Paul R.
Pillar, The New York Times
`Anyone who doubts cyber’s unintended consequences should read
David Sanger’s new book The Perfect Weapon. Sanger, a reporter for
The New York Times, has been a dogged and diligent observer of
cybersecurity issues for years. His book is a readable account of
what went wrong.’ —Robert Samuelson, The Washington Post
`A reader finishes this book fully understanding why cyberwar has
moved rapidly to the top of America’s official list of national
security threats.’ —David Von Drehle, The Washington Post
`In a chilling new book, The Perfect Weapon, David Sanger details
how more than 30 nations have developed effective cyber forces.’
—Financial Times
`[Sanger] writes with persuasiveness and authority.’ —The
Telegraph
`This encyclopedic account by a Times correspondent traces the
rapid rise of cyberwarfare capabilities and warns that ideas about
how to control them are only beginning to emerge.’ —The New York
Times Book Review (Editor’s Choice)
`You may not have realised it but we are at war. A world war. And
it’s not clear who’s winning or who will ultimately win, but the
battleground is vast — cyberspace … David E. Sanger sums up where
we are and where we could be heading.’ —Jon Wise, Weekend Sport
`[A] sobering new book.’ —John Naughton, The Observer
`The book’s greatest strength is in how Sanger captures the
complexities of cyber weapons and cyber operations to illustrate
the internal dynamics of the Obama administration as it grappled
with these emerging capabilities … It is well reported, well
sourced, and his access provides insights into what many of the key
players were thinking at the time and in the years since their
tenure ended … For lay readers, The Perfect Weapon is a great
one-volume precis on recent cyber war.’ —Joshua Huminski, The
Diplomatic Courier
`Computer and cyber warfare is a burgeoning mode of conflict that
poses serious threats to the United States, Pulitzer-winning New
York Times correspondent Sanger (Confront and Conceal) argues in
this perhaps overly worried investigation. Sanger gives a lucid
account of national programs for digital espionage and warfare, but
it’s not always clear that the various technologies described hold
much danger; for example, he doesn’t make a strong case that
Russian spoofing of social media accounts really undermines
American democracy. Readers could use a more thorough exploration
of the limitations of supposedly perfect digital weapons.’
—Publishers Weekly
`The Perfect Weapon may be one of the most important, if chilling,
books you’ll read this year.’ —The Saturday Age
`The greatest virtue of Sanger’s writing is that it is clear-headed
and morally grounded, not in any way breathless or apocalyptic.’
—Paul Monk, Weekend Australian
`Sanger, The New York Times’ security correspondent, has catalogued
the recent history of cyber warfare, how it needs to be confronted
and the intensely complex policy issues that arise. This is the
last word in the modern world of cyber warfare – until artificial
intelligence takes over.’ —Mercury
`Sanger, The New York Times’ security correspondent, has catalogued
the recent history of how cyber warfare has developed, how it needs
to be confronted, and the intensely complex policy issues that
arise.’ —Courier Mail
Praise for The Inheritance:
`[Sanger is] a shrewd and insightful strategic thinker.’ —Gary J.
Bass, The New York Times
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