Countdown to Zero Day

Countdown to Zero Day

2014 • 406 pages

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15

“A new age of mass destruction will begin in an effort to close a chapter from the first age of mass destruction.”
A dense (but engrossing) read, this is about Stuxnet, the game-changing virus/worm that signalled the age of cyberwarfare.
Since this is a true story (and not based on one), it becomes a drudgery to wade through the ‘boring' parts, but it is all made up for in the last third of the work, which details how the world landscape was changed irrevocably (for the worse) through trying to sabotage Iran's nuclear program.
TL;DR - reads like an expanded magazine article series, read if you can withstand factual writing which looks to be techno-babble, but don't read it if you want some sort of ‘excitement' in your ‘plot'.

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