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Future Crimes

A Journey to the Dark Side of Technology - and How to Survive It

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Future Crimes

By: Marc Goodman
Narrated by: Marc Goodman, Robertson Dean
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The New York Times Best Seller

Technological advances have benefited our world in immeasurable ways, but there is an ominous flipside. Criminals are often the earliest and most innovative adopters of technology, and modern times have led to modern crimes.

Today's criminals are stealing identities, draining online bank accounts, and wiping out computer servers. It's disturbingly easy to activate baby-cam monitors to spy on families, pacemakers can be hacked to deliver lethal jolts, and thieves are analyzing your social media in order to determine the best time for a home invasion.

Meanwhile 3-D printers produce AK-47s, terrorists can download the recipe for the Ebola virus, and drug cartels are building drones. This is just the beginning of the tsunami of technological threats coming our way. In Future Crimes Marc Goodman rips open his database of hundreds of real cases to give us front-row access to these impending perils.

Reading like a sci-fi thriller but based in startling fact, Goodman raises tough questions about the expanding role of technology in our lives. Future Crimes is a call to action for better security measures worldwide but, most importantly, will empower readers to protect themselves against these looming technological threats - before it's too late.

©2015 Marc Goodman (P)2015 Random House Audiobooks Future Studies Organized Crime Social Sciences True Crime

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This book has changed how I think about the data I produce and the head in the sand naivety with which I have used free apps, websites, etc in the past. I will never submit any personal data on the Internet again.. Oh wait..

Thought provoking

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This book is an in depth look at the current state of cyber-security and technological crime more generally, followed by a view into the future of these topics. The author is an (ex?) police officer who is clearly an expert on the topic and has thoroughly researched the material - very little cybercrime related topics remain untouched.

The first half (ish) of the book is taken up with what the state of the art is. This is terrifying and sometimes depressing as the author reels off vulnerability after vulnerability, crime after crime and (in many ways worse) violations by companies and states of people's privacy. I have to say that if you are interested in this topic you will probably know a fair amount of this already, but to have it collected in one place is great and also it's only once you hear it all together that you realise the scale of the challenge facing us.

The second half of the book is the "Future" from the title. Starting with the implications of the Internet of Things, and then moving as far afield as synthetic biology, the author starts to look at what these technologies will do to crime moving forward. This section was interesting for sure, but given that it is essentially futurology a lot of it came off as just science fiction. Of course, how could anyone know? Either way, I was left very much hopeful that people in the right positions of power are paying attention because there is some seriously scary stuff around the corner!

Thoroughly enjoyable, very nasty to contemplate some of it but has left me satisfied for sure.

Fascinating and often disturbing

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Good informtation give in a clear and well thought out, covers a lot of things going on in the world with IT and fruad and some plans to deal with it, and things we should all be thinking on,

Good insights on to criminal minds with the new stuff in tech and how it gets used.

Good Information to think on

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Almost finished this book. Key take away is that everything on internet or off internet is vulnerable.
Admire the logical thinking of author to present such a vast case however, it gets consistently negative.
I got frightened by the time I had finished the 1st part and thought more about. what is the option to avoid the technology.

Answer is Nothing. Technology is here to stay and whether you use it or not, it will impact everyone.
Its like Air. One can not create his/her own bubble and live. If the Air is poisonous, everyone breathing will inhale it.

Basically.. what can go wrong with every emerging

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If you weren't wary of the connected world before you read/listened to Future Crimes, you certainly will be afterwards.

Marc either has the gift of prophecy, or is very simply able to to see the potential (good and bad) of our connected world.

This book should be on the shelf of every IT manager, politician, CEO, school administrator, government (local and national) official.

Marc has been able to articulate the dangers of total interconnectivity, and offer solutions to enable users of any network, which is pretty much all of us, to be more aware of the use that your click/tap can be put to.

What was particularly prescient was the prediction that the weakness in Windows XP could be exploited on a global scale. A full 2 years before the actual event.

Afraid!..you will be.

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Future Crimes is an excellent, though frightening book. Robertson Dean's narration is great, as always.

Frightening

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I am no tech-head - perhaps more a Luddite than anything, but I still wanted to understand the direction of our world today in relation to IT-enabled crimes. And this book gave me the grounding I was seeking. Full of examples, it could serve to terrify given the invisible and latent power of the current day hacker. However, if one risks reading this book, at least the potential of these people begins to hit one's radar and provides an opportunity to put in place some protection. And, one can inform the younger generation who generally seem less guarded about openly sharing their personal information on the WWW. A good read - just be aware the the examples tend to drag on a little towards the end of the book ...

Be afraid - be v afraid ...

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Packed with important and interesting facts about the Internet and related technologies that we have become dependent on.

Should be mandatory reading.

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A little long but necessary to drive the point home....did not realise about the bio enginnering and technology of the future which is being slowly implemented now by some countries....really scarry thought..
Pay close attention from chapter 17 onwards....

A must read for everyone - a real eye opener...

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If you could sum up Future Crimes in three words, what would they be?

Start Wising Up

What did you like best about this story?

Makes you think about what information you give away without even realizing and just how vulnerable you can be if you don't take care in an interconnected world.

What does Marc Goodman and Robertson Dean bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?

They manage to keep a complex and potentially dry subject for some listeners, really interesting throughout. I've now listened to the the book twice, and found just as interesting second time around.

Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

Made me think long and hard about my family's personal information and how I will keep them safe in an increasingly connected world.

Any additional comments?

If you want to wise up and protect yourself in an increasingly connected world - read this book.

Eye opening stuff - highly recommended

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