If It's Smart, It's Vulnerable

The Internet brings us incredible new opportunities, but also chilling new risks. Mikko Hypponen has spent 30 years investigating the dark sides of the net: online crime, data leaks, security vulnerabilities and online espionage. Through examples and case studies, he investigates how we got here and where are we going next.

This book is an insider's look into how the Internet changed the world for the better and for the worse. It is about the internet and us. The internet has changed from a technical curiosity to a seamless part of our everyday life. Eventually it will become invisible; something we take for granted and assume to be available always and everywhere. This is what happened with the electricity grid.

This book also explores the things that threaten the future of the internet: organized online crime gangs, governmental surveillance and censorship, and the fight over control of the internet. It also looks at how law enforcement and intelligence agencies operate on the internet, how money became data and the myriad, often surprising impacts that occur when we all carry a supercomputer in our pockets.