I've been a fan of Cory Doctorow for many years now. He has a blog and is involved with the frontier of real hacking, technological exploitation, and how we are encroached upon. Not only that, but he's also focused on how we can protect ourselves.

In fact, I've been a huge fan ever since Little Broth ...more

I received an electronic advance copy of this book in return for a fair and honest review. What a time to have this book come out. In my mind, I was thinking trenchant and clairvoyant for this five star book, then I saw the afterword where “trenchant” was used, so you’ll have to take my word for it ...more

Hitting even more close to home than Doctorow's previous books, with technology that all of us use every day, I still found myself hanging on to the technology presented by my fingertips - just - have a grasp - of it....there! However, the jumping timeline gave me a lot of trouble, mixed with the te ...more

Dystopian, techno-thriller on the technology and politics of the surveillance society.

My dead pixels copy was a moderate 384 pages with a US 2020 copyright.

Cory Doctorow is a British-Canadian blogger, journalist, editor, and science fiction author. He is the author of more than ten novels, many ...more

Synopsis:  Masha Maximov works for a cybersecurity company "Xoth" which offers targeted surveillance services to governments, starting with the city of "Bltz", the capital of "Slovstakia" (obviously European Slovakia). In her free time, she helps out dissidents in Slovastakia who usually don't know ...more

After ten years in the tech industry Masha is very good at her job. Surveillance tech companies pay Masha a lot of money to use cell phones, cell towers, and all kinds of technology to spy on bad guys. Masha’s special skill is being able to collect tons of data and interpret the information to creat ...more

Masha Maximow is a smart girl who is working for Xoth Intelligence. This is an InfoSec company who can provide individual, companies, states and countries with the tool they need to monitor and spy on their staff and citizens. She is currently in the country of Slovstakian working with the Ministry ...more

Thanks to Net Galley and the publisher for an advance copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
Terrorist or Freedom fighter? The answer depends on who is looking at the data. This book delves into the world of hacking, post soviet regimes populated with paranoid petty dictators, and protes ...more

When "Attack Surface" is good, it's great. When the plotting and characterization stumbles, it's very very bad.

Picking up almost a decade after the events of Doctorow's YA novel "Little Brother," his upcoming novel follows the career of Masha Maximow, the hacker/programmer who showed up briefly in ...more

This is a book that preaches to the choir. If you understand everything Doctorow writes about here in terms of cybersecurity and government ops and private industry-as government, then it's a mostly fun ride through the chaos of modern warfare and political force while watching the narrator develop ...more