Cyber Shadows Paperback – April 1, 2014

Carolyn Nordstrom is one of my favorite writers. She takes complex subjects like cyber crime and makes it palatable for the lay person. The book provides numerous interviews and insights to explain the subject. A good snapshot of the cyber crime in 2014, and very relevant for discussions going on today in 2021.

Cyber shadows posses many question about how the internet is changing the human experience and the myths and realitites of the new culture. for many of us, hacking and cyberwars sound like science fiction but is happening rigth now, in front of us a cultural, legal and digital war is happening and the results will shape the human ideas about the borders between public and private, and a new sense of digital citizenship very different from the national state experience

This book was an eye-opening, informative read about the world of cyber crime, a growing concern in today's society. I'd recommend this book to any young person that uses the internet, as it discusses issues of privacy and our identities online.

This is a fantastic book. I enjoyed reading it and was shocked to learn to many new things about the cyber world. The book had a huge impact on me. I've already loaned the book to a friend.

Informative! Impressive research!

It's 2017 now and this book was based on 2012 information. It's 5 years out of date. I thought I would get some basic meat as who exactly the bad hackers were, specifically what they stole, and how they were tracked down, or why they never could be tracked down. It's just a compilation of a lot of technical articles and news stories woven into a book format. Both the authors are academics so the biblio is important so they don't get accused of plagiarism. I give them credit for that. It really doesn't tell you anything that you don't already know especially if you even have a lay interest in this stuff. It's filled with anecdotal comments and future speculation which is probably true, but we all know most of the vulnerability now. There are a few WW II spy catcher books about the British that got into the nuts and bolts of how they did stuff. This book just doesn't do it for me. Sorry!

This book is an eye-opener and a must-read for anyone who wants to understand current and future arenas of global domination and resistance. In an ethnography that is as breathtaking and straightforward as her earlier work on war-zones and their global shadows, Carolyn Nordstrom (with Lisa Carlson) takes us this time into the shadowed spaces of cyber technology, and once again provides us with mind-wrecking insights into the realities of the world we live in.

I've been in publishing for 40 years and responsible for a thousand books; Cyber Shadows ranks as one of the most important and very best of those. Anyone who wants to understand the full extent of the cyber revolution and the impact of hacking on international politics, economies, and individual security, identity and privacy will find this book essential reading. It is well-researched, clear and compelling.