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    Summary of Nicole Perlroth's This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends
    Summary of Nicole Perlroth's This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends
    Summary of Nicole Perlroth's This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends
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    Summary of Nicole Perlroth's This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends

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    Get the Summary of Nicole Perlroth's This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Zero day: a software bug that allows a hacker to break into your devices and move around undetected. One of the most coveted tools in a spy's arsenal, a zero day has the power to silently spy on your iPhone, dismantle the safety controls at a chemical plant, alter an election, and shut down the electric grid (just ask Ukraine).

    For decades, under cover of classification levels and non-disclosure agreements, the United States government became the world's dominant hoarder of zero days. U.S. government agents paid top dollar-first thousands, and later millions of dollars- to hackers willing to sell their lock-picking code and their silence.

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    PublisherIRB Media
    Release dateDec 1, 2021
    ISBN9781952482861
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      Insights from Chapter 1

      #1

      The author, a reporter for the New York Times, was assigned to cover cybersecurity in 2013. She was hired despite not knowing anything about it, and three years later, she was still covering it.

      #2

      The New York Times was going to publish two articles based on the leaks from Edward Snowden, a contractor for the National Security Agency. The first was a collaboration with the Guardian, and the second with ProPublica.

      #3

      The author was assigned to write about the NSA’s capabilities, but was more interested in the agency’s ability to crack encryption. It proved to be more powerful than many realized.

      #4

      The documents revealed that the NSA had developed a way to insert undetectable backdoors into almost every major app, social media platform, and server. These backdoors have names like zero days and 0 days.

      #5

      The author was able to read some of the documents pertaining to the NSA’s hacking operations, and what she saw confirmed what many had said about the agency’s activities: they went far beyond their mandate in terms of surveillance.

      #6

      It became clear that the documents we had were not enough to publish an article, and that more documents were missing from the original Snowden trove.

      #7

      The author was working for the Guardian at the time, and was tasked with interviewing people from the NSA. She was shocked to find out that the NSA had been hacking its own citizens, including herself.

      #8

      The author was a newbie journalist who had just started covering cybersecurity. She was attending her first conference, and being seated between two Italians with unkempt hair and t-shirts, she felt a tension she had never experienced before.

      #9

      The author wanted to know about the Italian hackers’ clients, so she asked who they didn’t sell to. The answer: nobody. The Italian hackers were extremely careful not to leak any information about their clients.

      #10

      The author was invited to a private dinner with two Italian entrepreneurs who were working on a deal with the U. S. government. They were going to sell the American government information on how to farm and raise fish.

      #11

      The author wanted to know how the US was able to buy and sell zero-day exploits, and who was doing it. She eventually got in touch with a former government hacker who explained the entire program, and how it made no sense.

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