Tech Books We Love
If there’s one thing to know about me, it’s that I’m a huge book worm. I’ve put together a list of some tech books that have crept onto my favorites list lately.
Chokepoint Capitalism
In Chokepoint Capitalism, scholar Rebecca Giblin and writer and activist Cory Doctorow argue we’re in a new era of “chokepoint capitalism,” with exploitative businesses creating insurmountable barriers to competition that enable them to capture value that should rightfully go to others.
The Internet Con
A Big Tech disassembly manual, presenting a theory of internet enshittification and a way to throw it into reverse, creating a new, good internet that is a worthy successor to the old, good internet – so that the enshitternet of today is thrown on the scrapheap of history as an unfortunate transitional stage between the two.
Cult of the Dead Cow
How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World
Crash Override
How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate
Sandworm
A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin’s Most Dangerous Hackers
Ghost in the Wires
My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker
The Art of Intrusion
The Real Stories Behind the Exploits of Hackers, Intruders and Deceivers
The Art of Deception
Controlling the Human Element of Security
Permanent Record
Algorithms to Live By
The Computer Science of Human Decisions
Where Wizards Stay Up Late
The Origins of the Internet
Tracers in the Dark
The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency