World on the Brink Quotes

“I realized that collecting intelligence and understanding what an adversary's motivations are and where they're headed is fundamental to cybersecurity.”
― Dmitri Alperovitch, World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century

“As my team and I examined the data from the intrusions into Google and other large companies, I felt like I was watching the world change before my eyes. Deep in the malware, I spotted the word “Aurora,” a word that instantly resonated with me from the Soviet history drilled into me during my school years in Moscow in the 1980s, and so I decided to name the hack Operation Aurora. Aurora, after all, was the Crimean War–era cruiser stationed in St. Petersburg that in 1917 fired the shot to signal Lenin’s Bolsheviks to launch the October Revolution. That shot changed the course of the twentieth century, and indeed of world history—leading to the establishment of the Soviet Union, the spread of communism around the world, and the launch of the Cold War—and I instantly felt that this hack marked another momentous and historic turning point.”
― Dmitri Alperovitch, World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century