SHANE HARRIS is the author of The Watchers: The Rise of America's Surveillance State, which won the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism and was named one of the best books of 2010 by the Economist. Harris won the 2010 Gerald R. Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on National Defense. He is Senior Correspondent at the Daily Beast, covering national security, intelligence, and cyber security. He is also an ASU fellow at New America, where he researches the future of war. Previously, he was senior writer at the Washingtonian, and his work has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Slate, the Daily Beast, the Washington Post, and numerous other publications. He has provided analysis and commentary for CNN, NPR, the BBC, and many other media organizations and radio stations.
Washington Post
"Chilling . . . Extraordinary and urgent." Christian Science
Monitor
"Unsettling . . . Deeply informative." James Risen, author of Pay
Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War
"@War is a remarkable achievement. Harris uses dogged shoe-leather
reporting to take us deep inside the government's surveillance and
cyber operations to give an unsparing look at what the NSA and
other agencies are really doing with all our data. In the age of
abstract Snowden documents, @War actually introduces us to the
people running America's electronic spying machine, and offers
invaluable insights into how their ambition and turf battles impact
our financial security, our privacy, and our freedom." Thomas E.
Ricks, author of Fiasco and The Generals
"A great overview of our new cyberfronts. Unlike most books about
cyberwar, this one is enjoyably readable. At times it feels like a
modern spy novel, but it is a guide to tomorrow's headlines." Peter
Bergen, author of Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden from
9/11 to Abbottabad
"@War is a tour de force of reporting on the past, present, and
future of cyber-conflict. It will be required reading both in the
Pentagon and among the army of Chinese cyber spies now assaulting
American businesses. Hackers, policy makers, and others will find
this book both intriguing and alarming; not to mention very well
written." Publishers Weekly
"Cyber-espionage is the 'single most productive means of gathering
information about our country's adversaries, ' writes Harris (The
Watchers: The Rise of America's Surveillance State), senior writer
for Foreign Policy, in this unnerving exposé. After 9/11, the
National Security Administration (NSA), the nation's global
information-gathering agency, submitted a wish list to the Bush
administration. It was approved and the "'military-Internet complex
was born.' According to Harris, electronic eavesdropping was
fundamental to 2007's Iraq surge and the NSA located Osama bin
Laden through spyware planted in his operatives' mobile phones.
Readers will squirm as they learn how every communications
enterprise (Google, AT&T, Verizon, Facebook) cooperates with
the national security establishment. Harris delivers a convincing
account of the terrible cyberdisasters that loom, and the intrusive
nature of the fight to prevent them." Kirkus Reviews
"Sprawling account of how the U.S. military joined forces with the
National Security Agency to develop 'cyber warfare' capabilities,
monitoring America's enemies and its citizens alike. Harris adeptly
documents the online threats directed at American society, ranging
from the Chinese military's well-funded hacking cells to
large-scale information thefts committed by international crime
syndicates, but he also demonstrates the NSA's insatiable
collection of metadata and preparation of "backdoor" cyberweapons
for future use, concluding that '[a]nonymity and collective
security may be incompatible in cyberspace.'"
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