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Emily Chang: Brotopia (2018) 4 stars

Reveals how male-dominated Silicon Valley became sexist despite its utopian ideals and decades of companies …

A Must Read

5 stars

Absolutely integral to read and read again and refer back to for anyone that wants to be involved in tech. This amazing dive into the causes, perpetuators, and solutions of the bro problem in tech has helped me understand what I can do to fight it, and elegantly articulates a main reason I left the tech industry.

Buy 5 or 10 and leave them laying around in tech offices.

Laurent Richard, Sandrine Rigaud: Pegasus (Hardcover, 2023, Henry Holt and Co.) 5 stars

NSO’s Pegasus system has not been limited to catching bad guys. It’s also been used …

Excellent How To

5 stars

A great look at how the original team then expanded and collaborated to unravel the story that none thought even was happening. However it is more of an intro to the real story / reporting done by all the organisations and a how-to for journalists. I feel it sets the stage for reading the reporting by all involved partner organisations.

Brian Krebs: Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime-from Global Epidemic to Your Front Door (2014, Sourcebooks) 4 stars

A great intro to Krebs

4 stars

If you haven’t read anything by Brian Krebs this is a good introduction to his in-depth approach to reporting on Cybersecuirty and Cybercrime items. He does acknowledge that it takes a team and is honest and transparent about it. It’s a great look inside the Pharmacy Wars and how they started the accelerated path of the cat and mouse game between spammers, malware creators and the targeted people and organisations.