Exploring the Digital Underground: An Inside Look at the Battle to Protect Our Connected World from Future Crimes

Edwin: A Gripping book, makes you feel like reading a suspense novel. Marc Goodman explains very well about the dangers that may lie in connected devices, IOT, darknet etc., & also gives possible solutions to the scary connected future.

India on Aug 14, 2023

Not up to the mark. This is definitely not blackout as sunlight passes at high percentage. It’s not as per the description nor size. I would not buy this again!!: A must read for the current world scenarios where we are completely dependent on online buying and booking tickets!!!

Germany on Jul 31, 2023

Kenny Julien: A lot of well documented examples - your attitude towards internet security will never be the same, after reading this book.

France on May 27, 2019

Joey: This book has been a life changer!

Anyone with a pulse & ability to read SHOULD READ THIS BOOK! It's very timely & eye opening.

If you aren't afraid of the truth than this book is for you!
If you wish to know what to prepare/expect for than this book is for you!
If you think you have all your bases covered than this still is the book for you!

You take the blue pill, the story ends. You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and Marc Goodman will show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Thank you, Marc Goodman, for the "red" pill: Future Crimes.

Nuf Said! Read the book already!

Canada on Aug 25, 2017

Darío Contreras: Me gustó la manera en la que el autor abordó un tema que es bastante complejo y lo supo estructurar de una manera en la cual comienza con temas que estamos familiarizados como lo son las redes sociales , los datos que no nos damos cuenta que generamos , la forma en como nos exponemos ante las nuevas tecnologías, los términos de servicios que damos clic en aceptar de manera automática y todo esto lo respalda con casos desde su inicio, su desarrollo y como finalizo haciendo énfasis en las consecuencias por no haber prevenido. Después el autor nos lleva por un recorrido de cómo están dando la nueva ola de crímenes cibernéticos en donde radica su fuerza en la Deep Web la cual trabaja de manera conjunta con el Bitcoin y explica los ataque desde las comunes hasta los más complejos que podemos sufrir al navegar o al utilizar algún dispositivo tecnológico y es en este mismo recorrido donde nos muestra la evolución y nos muestra avances que se están desarrollando actualmente como son los robots tratando de centralizar todo lo que conocemos hasta el momento y combinarlo con la biología esto en conjunto va a tener un mayor impacto en la política y en la economía de los...

Mexico on Apr 26, 2017

Ron Immink: What is humanities back up plan?

Future Crimes by Marc Goodman is a very scary book. We have covered some books that touch on the topic before such as “Filter Bubble”, “Overconnected” and “Brandwashed”, but “Future Crimes, a journey to the dark side of technology and how to survive it” is an eye opener.

The scary statistics

Lets start with some scary statistics:

200,000 new pieces of malware are identified every day
One third of all households in the USA are infected by malicious software
95% of all malware is not detected by most virus checkers (those include McAfee and Symantec)
A hacking intrusion takes 210 days to detect
75% of the time your defences can be penetrated in minutes
Only 15% require more then a few hours (but are still hacked)
The average cost per record stolen is $ 188
In 2017 a 100 billion will be spend on software and hardware security
110 million accounts were stolen from Target stores alone
The value of location data will be over a 100 billion in the next ten years
Android was created to give Google access to all your mobile data
Data brokers earn 156 billion every year
Acxiom has...

United States on Jan 22, 2016

Phillip Skaga: Technological change has always been a powerful force in human society particularly in the USA and especially recent decades. Most tech changes created new problems e.g. smog from cars, but eventually these were either mitigated or we learned to live with attendant problems. It is not inaccurate to consider what is presently happening in technology as almost miraculous. Problems engendered by present collective ‘miracles’ are increasingly of a different order than in past.

There is some indication the present spate of tech innovations has/will have a impact on society greater in magnitude (transnational) and nature (unusually invasive). It is difficult to discover potential detail of these pending problems from current news sources or from technologists themselves. Present tech hype has a propensity to excessively, perhaps understandably, focussed on good news (among technologists) as found in popular media (generally anxiously repeating good news). Less emphasis is placed on impediments or dangers. One need only consider Kurzweil, Diamandis, the Singularity University, TED, Gore, Edge, Brockman or query entrepreneurs that created Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. as to...

United States on Jun 14, 2015