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The Hacked World Order: How Nations Fight, Trade, Maneuver, and Manipulate in the Digital Age

Adam Segal

3.72 · Rating details · 115 Ratings · 9 Reviews

For more than three hundred years, the world wrestled with conflicts that arose between nation-states. Nation-states wielded military force, financial pressure, and diplomatic persuasion to create “world order.” Even after the end of the Cold War, the elements comprising world order remained essentially unchanged.

But 2012 marked a transformation in geopolitics and the tact ...more

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Published February 23rd 2016 by PublicAffairs (first published February 2nd 2016)

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Feb 23, 2016 John rated it it was amazing

Shelves: books-i-own, general-nonfiction, technology, foreign-affairs, politics, history

A Notable Book on the Geopolitical Implications of Cyberwarfare

"The Hacked World Order: How Nations Fight, Trade, Maneuver And Manipulate In The Digital Age" may become as important as Bruce Sterling's "The Hacker Crackdown" in chronicling the history of online hacking. It may be more important in the sense that this is the first major book I have seen that looks critically at the geopolitical implications of organized online hacking by intelligence agencies, military - and paramilitary - organi A Notable Book on the Geopolitical Implications of Cyberwarfare

"The Hacked World Order: How Nations Fight, Trade, Maneuver And Manipulate In The Digital Age" may become as important as Bruce Sterling's "The Hacker Crackdown" in chronicling the history of online hacking. It may be more important in the sense that this is the first major book I have seen that looks critically at the geopolitical implications of organized online hacking by intelligence agencies, military - and paramilitary - organizations and terrorists. In plain English, it explores the usage of online hacking as a means of waging war via nonlethal means, but ultimately, resulting in creating ample mayhem and mischief on a scale approaching traditional, quite lethal, warfare. It does not delve deeply into the creation of online digital weapons like the notorious Stuxnet virus, the subject of journalist Kim Zetter's exceptional "Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon". Instead, it describes, in gripping detail, how Iran responded to the online threats posed by Stuxnet and similar viruses, by using reserve engineering of relevant software, and quickly becoming, in its own right, a major regional cyberpower, capable of crippling the online infrastructure of its Middle Eastern neighbors. While Segal shows that there's been reluctance between the United States and Russia to engage in substantial online cyberwarfare, he does not the increasing importance and interest expressed by the Chinese, as well as the rogue states he believes have become important cyberpowers in their own right; Iran and North Korea. Such reluctance, however, hasn't deterred the United States and Russia from including cyberweaponry as increasingly important aspects of their military arsenal, and Segal does discuss at great length, American efforts in deterring cyberattacks as well as furthering their importance in the cyberweaponry arms race. With regards to Russia, he shows how cyberwarfare played important roles in its 2008 invasion of part of the Republic of Georgia and in the ongoing conflict between Kremlin-backed rebels in Eastern Ukraine with Ukrainian military forces. He also cites important recent events that may be milestones in the history of cyberwarfare, like the Twitter war in Gaza between the Israeli Defense Force and the Hamas "government" of the Gaza Strip, seeking to win the hearts of minds of people across the globe via social media. On a far more sobering note, Segal concludes, by noting the decline of the "Digital Pax Americana" since the "Year Zero" (2012), pointing to the rise of cyberpowers like those cited earlier that seek to use cyberwarfare to further their military, economic and geopolitical objectives. "The Hacked World Order" may be the most important book on contemporary foreign relations published this year, and one worthy of an exceptionally broad audience, from politicians to those in the public vaguely aware of cyberwarfare. ...more

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Mar 30, 2016 Martyn Perks rated it liked it

Very pro-American outlook on the problem of protecting national security and having to include private companies who both innovate and share the same networks as government agencies. Hence their need to coop hackers into national security. But his argument about American influence doesn't properly deal with its slow decline in global influence or inclination to reassert it's once powerful foreign influence.

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May 26, 2016 Victor rated it liked it

Informative but dry.

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Nov 11, 2017 Heather rated it really liked it

Shelves: ma-international-studies, nonfiction

The Hacked World Order is a book by Adam Segal, a cybersecurity expert and graduate of Cornell University. Published in 2016, it details the history of the emerging threats to global security via the Internet and discusses possible solutions. Segal’s language is straightforward and accessible, with numerous examples that make the prose easy to follow and interesting to engage in. Most example have happened in the last five to six years, and were so prominent in the public consciousness that one ...more

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Nov 05, 2017 Deanna Reynolds rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Best book on Cyber security...hands down!

Excellent read. Update to date and packed with meaningful examples. Recommend this to anyone interested in cyber policy, international relations and future of privacy.

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Sep 19, 2017 Lincoln Davidson rated it really liked it

Shelves: nonfiction, political-science

Very good overview of the major problems and debates in cybersecurity, online privacy, etc. (Although having been part of the research process, I'll admit I'm a bit biased!)

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Mar 01, 2017 Sharon rated it it was amazing

Enlightening and a little frightening to learn how other governments are able to hack into our system and bounce the signal all over the world so they cannot be detected. Russia and China especially have been spying on the US for at least the past decade. Espionage is nothing new; it's just gotten sneakier and more complicated. Segal went into depth how easy it was for North Korea to hack into Sony several years ago. How much harder was it for Russia to infiltrate our Internet, plant propaganda, ...more

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Dec 12, 2016 Roberto Gallardo rated it liked it · review of another edition

Book discusses a timely and important topic. It has some valuable historical narrative that really does set the stage for this discussion. Loved the analogy about year zero. However, at times it reads slow and repetitive. More importantly, the main point gets lost. The summary at the end is equally confusing.

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