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Bestsellers
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Permanent Record
- By: Edward Snowden
- Narrated by: Holter Graham
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
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Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down....
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Great (if incomplete) account
- By Ryan L on 09-22-19
By: Edward Snowden
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Your Face Belongs to Us
- A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It
- By: Kashmir Hill
- Narrated by: Kashmir Hill
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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New York Times tech reporter Kashmir Hill was skeptical when she got a tip about a mysterious app called Clearview AI that claimed it could, with 99 percent accuracy, identify anyone based on just one snapshot of their face....
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Eye opening
- By Jared rimer on 05-16-24
By: Kashmir Hill
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Means of Control
- How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State
- By: Byron Tau
- Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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For the past five years—ever since a chance encounter at a dinner party—journalist Byron Tau has been piecing together a secret story: how the whole of the internet and every digital device in the world became a mechanism of intelligence, surveillance, and monitoring....
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You sort of knew it already…
- By Leigh Munsil on 05-08-24
By: Byron Tau
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First Platoon
- A Story of Modern War in the Age of Identity Dominance
- By: Annie Jacobsen
- Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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A powerful story of war in our time, of love of country, the experience of tragedy, and a platoon at the center of it all....
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An eye opener
- By Amazon Customer on 01-19-21
By: Annie Jacobsen
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
- The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
- By: Shoshana Zuboff
- Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella
- Length: 24 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is neither a hand-wringing narrative of danger and decline nor a digital fairy tale. It offers a reasoned and evocative examination of the contests over the next chapter of capitalism that will decide the meaning of information civilization....
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Book Editors failed to trim the word count
- By Todd B on 07-14-19
By: Shoshana Zuboff
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Pegasus
- How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy
- By: Laurent Richard, Sandrine Rigaud, Rachel Maddow
- Narrated by: Andrew Wehrlen, Rachel Maddow, Rachel Perry
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Pegasus tells the story of one of the most sophisticated, invasive government surveillance weapons ever created.
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Incredible!
- By Silvershopper on 01-18-23
By: Laurent Richard, and others
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Permanent Record
- By: Edward Snowden
- Narrated by: Holter Graham
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down....
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Great (if incomplete) account
- By Ryan L on 09-22-19
By: Edward Snowden
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Your Face Belongs to Us
- A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It
- By: Kashmir Hill
- Narrated by: Kashmir Hill
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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New York Times tech reporter Kashmir Hill was skeptical when she got a tip about a mysterious app called Clearview AI that claimed it could, with 99 percent accuracy, identify anyone based on just one snapshot of their face....
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Eye opening
- By Jared rimer on 05-16-24
By: Kashmir Hill
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Means of Control
- How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State
- By: Byron Tau
- Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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For the past five years—ever since a chance encounter at a dinner party—journalist Byron Tau has been piecing together a secret story: how the whole of the internet and every digital device in the world became a mechanism of intelligence, surveillance, and monitoring....
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You sort of knew it already…
- By Leigh Munsil on 05-08-24
By: Byron Tau
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First Platoon
- A Story of Modern War in the Age of Identity Dominance
- By: Annie Jacobsen
- Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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A powerful story of war in our time, of love of country, the experience of tragedy, and a platoon at the center of it all....
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An eye opener
- By Amazon Customer on 01-19-21
By: Annie Jacobsen
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
- The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
- By: Shoshana Zuboff
- Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella
- Length: 24 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is neither a hand-wringing narrative of danger and decline nor a digital fairy tale. It offers a reasoned and evocative examination of the contests over the next chapter of capitalism that will decide the meaning of information civilization....
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Book Editors failed to trim the word count
- By Todd B on 07-14-19
By: Shoshana Zuboff
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Pegasus
- How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy
- By: Laurent Richard, Sandrine Rigaud, Rachel Maddow
- Narrated by: Andrew Wehrlen, Rachel Maddow, Rachel Perry
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Pegasus tells the story of one of the most sophisticated, invasive government surveillance weapons ever created.
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Incredible!
- By Silvershopper on 01-18-23
By: Laurent Richard, and others
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Our Biggest Fight
- Reclaiming Liberty, Humanity, and Dignity in the Digital Age
- By: Frank H. McCourt Jr., Michael J. Casey - contributor
- Narrated by: Frank H. McCourt Jr., Michael J. Casey, Jonathan Beville
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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The internet as we know it is broken. Here’s how we can seize back control of our lives from the corporate algorithms and create a better internet—before it’s too late....
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We can make Ai work for us by starting to claim our own data!
- By Amazon Customer on 04-20-24
By: Frank H. McCourt Jr., and others
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Weapons of Math Destruction
- How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
- By: Cathy O'Neil
- Narrated by: Cathy O'Neil
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives—where we go to school, whether we can get a job or a loan, how much we pay for health insurance—are being made not by humans, but by machines. In theory, this should lead to greater fairness....
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More are US social problems that WMD
- By Laurent Bourgault-Roy on 01-08-17
By: Cathy O'Neil
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Outrage Machine
- How Tech Amplifies Discontent, Disrupts Democracy—and What We Can Do About It
- By: Tobias Rose-Stockwell
- Narrated by: Justin Price, Tobias Rose-Stockwell, Bolton Marsh
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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An invaluable guide to understanding the underlying machinery and technology that grabs our attention—and keeps us coming back by filling us with rage....
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EXCEPTIONAL
- By David S. on 07-16-23
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No Place to Hide
- Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
- By: Glenn Greenwald
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Coming at a landmark moment in American history, No Place to Hide is a fearless, incisive, and essential contribution to our understanding of the U.S. surveillance state....
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Best Read in Print Format
- By Alfredo Ramirez on 11-22-14
By: Glenn Greenwald
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The Recruiter
- Spying and the Lost Art of American Intelligence
- By: Douglas London
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 17 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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This revealing memoir from a 34-year veteran of the CIA who worked as a case officer and recruiter of foreign agents before and after 9/11 provides an invaluable perspective on the state of modern spy craft, how the CIA has developed, and how it must continue to evolve....
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What a whiner
- By Apple Engineer on 02-26-22
By: Douglas London
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Artificial Intelligence Versus God
- The Final Battle for Humanity
- By: Perry Stone
- Narrated by: Matthew Foley
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Known as artificial intelligence, experts warn that the technology comes with great benefits, but also with great warnings....
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AI vs. God
- By Pauline on 05-03-24
By: Perry Stone
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Invisible Rulers
- The People Who Turn Lies into Reality
- By: Renee DiResta
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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A brilliant, original analysis of the radical shift in the dynamics of power and influence, revealing how the machinery that powered the Big Lie works to create bespoke realities revolutionizing politics, culture, and society....
By: Renee DiResta
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Blackmailer with a Heart: Dean Fujioka Stars in Suspense Comedy; Creates, Sings its Theme Song
- By: Yayoi Kawatoko
- Narrated by: Brian Holsopple
- Length: 4 mins
- Unabridged
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The Japan News is an English-language daily newspaper published by The Yomiuri Shimbun, a leading Japanese newspaper with the largest circulation in the nation. Launched in 1955, the English paper was long known as The Daily Yomiuri but changed to its current name in April 2013 as part of a major renewal of the newspaper’s content. Drawing on The Yomiuri Shimbun’s broad news coverage network, The Japan News offers the latest and most reliable information about Japan to the world and is an excellent source of both domestic and foreign news. The
By: Yayoi Kawatoko
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Spyfail
- Foreign Spies, Moles, Saboteurs, and the Collapse of America's Counterintelligence
- By: James Bamford
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 20 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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James Bamford unveils a hidden cabal of foreign powers that have spied against America to reveal the incredible spygames, secrets, and cyberweapons they’ve hatched, unlocked, and stolen—and how U.S. intelligence has utterly failed to stop them....
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As an undereducated layman, Bamford is excellent
- By ChuckBeattyxHOEYologist75to03 on 03-11-23
By: James Bamford
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Click Here to Kill Everybody
- Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World
- By: Bruce Schneier
- Narrated by: Roger Wayne
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Everything is a computer. Cutting-edge digital attackers can now crash your car, your pacemaker, and the nation’s power grid. In Click Here to Kill Everybody, renowned expert and best-selling author Bruce Schneier examines the hidden risks of this new reality....
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Title is the best part of the book
- By Ener Systems on 06-16-19
By: Bruce Schneier
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Surveillance Valley
- The Secret Military History of the Internet
- By: Yasha Levine
- Narrated by: LJ Ganser
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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In this fascinating book, investigative reporter Yasha Levine uncovers the secret origins of the Internet, tracing it back to a Pentagon counterinsurgency surveillance project....
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Profound look at the internet and surveillance
- By stuartjash on 04-06-18
By: Yasha Levine
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Sedition Hunters
- How January 6th Broke the Justice System
- By: Ryan J. Reilly
- Narrated by: Ryan J. Reilly
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
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Ryan Reilly gets to know would-be revolutionaries, obsessive online sleuths, and FBI agents, and shines a light on a justice system that's straining to maintain order in our polarized country....
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Lost Opportunity
- By JenMarie66 on 10-21-23
By: Ryan J. Reilly
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Bleeding Out
- The Devastating Consequences of Urban Violence - and a Bold New Plan for Peace in the Streets
- By: Thomas Abt
- Narrated by: Brad Raymond
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Urban violence is one of the most divisive and allegedly intractable issues of our time. But as Harvard scholar Thomas Abt shows in Bleeding Out, we actually possess all the tools necessary to stem violence in our cities....
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Great read from a guy who committed his life to reducing violence
- By Dan Goodwin on 08-09-20
By: Thomas Abt
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Privacidad es poder [Privacy Is Power]
- Datos, vigilancia y libertad en la era digital [Data, Surveillance and Freedom in the Digital Age]
- By: Carissa Véliz, Albino Santos Mosquera - translator
- Narrated by: Kerygma Flores
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Carissa Véliz explica cómo nuestros datos personales están cediendo demasiado poder a las grandes empresas tecnológicas y a los gobiernos, por qué esto es importante y qué podemos hacer al respecto....
By: Carissa Véliz, and others
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The Power of One
- How I Found the Strength to Tell the Truth and Why I Blew the Whistle on Facebook
- By: Frances Haugen
- Narrated by: Frances Haugen
- Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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The Power of One is the inside story of one woman’s battles against Big Tech, by the Facebook whistleblower who is determined to help us all retake control of our lives....
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Thank God for the analytical mind of Frances.
- By Sarah on 09-22-23
By: Frances Haugen
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Cyber Privacy
- Who Has Your Data and Why You Should Care
- By: April Falcon Doss
- Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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In Cyber Privacy, Doss demystifies the digital footprints we leave in our daily lives and reveals how our data is being used - sometimes against us - by the private sector, the government, and even our employers and schools....
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Book Worthy of Joe Biden Admin Privacy Ethics
- By J.B. on 02-17-23
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The Perfect Police State
- An Undercover Odyssey into China's Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future
- By: Geoffrey Cain
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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A riveting investigation into how a restive region of China became the site of a nightmare Orwellian social experiment - the definitive police state - and the global technology giants that made it possible....
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Enjoyed the story and performance
- By Nate on 07-08-21
By: Geoffrey Cain
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The Hank Show
- How a House-Painting, Drug-Running DEA Informant Built the Machine That Rules Our Lives
- By: McKenzie Funk
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin, McKenzie Funk
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Critically acclaimed author and journalist McKenzie Funk tells the bizarre and captivating story of the most important person you've never heard of....
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fascinating
- By Joseph Moore on 02-12-24
By: McKenzie Funk
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The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception
- By: H. Keith Melton, Robert Wallace
- Narrated by: Perry Daniels
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.
By: H. Keith Melton, and others
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The Voyeur's Motel
- By: Gay Talese
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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On January 7, 1980, in the run-up to the publication of his landmark best seller Thy Neighbor's Wife, Gay Talese received an anonymous letter from a man in Colorado....
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Strangely captivating
- By Mike Lewis on 07-14-16
By: Gay Talese
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How America Lost Its Secrets
- Edward Snowden, the Man and the Theft
- By: Edward Jay Epstein
- Narrated by: Michael Bybee
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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A groundbreaking exposé that challenges the popular image of Edward Snowden as hacker turned avenging angel, while revealing how vulnerable our national security systems have become....
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Garbage
- By Sean on 11-07-17
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Surveillance State
- Inside China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control
- By: Josh Chin, Liza Lin
- Narrated by: Brian Nishii
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Surveillance State tells the gripping, startling, and detailed story of how China’s Communist Party is building a new kind of political control: shaping the will of the people through the sophisticated—and often brutal—harnessing of data....
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Excellent
- By DeeRod on 05-26-23
By: Josh Chin, and others
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@War
- The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex
- By: Shane Harris
- Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
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The United States military currently views cyberspace as the "fifth domain" of warfare - alongside land, sea, air, and space - and the Department of Defense, National Security Agency....
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The short history of the US and Cyber War
- By Greg on 02-06-15
By: Shane Harris
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Cyber Crisis
- Protecting Your Business from Real Threats in the Virtual World
- By: Eric Cole
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
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In Cyber Crisis, Eric Cole gives listeners a clear-eyed picture of the information war raging in cyberspace. Drawing on 30 years of experience, Cole offers practical, actionable advice that even those with little technical background can implement....
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Not garbage but also not great
- By Steve Bostedor on 09-11-22
By: Eric Cole