Behold a Pale Farce

Cyberwar, Threat Inflation, & the Malware Industrial Complex

Bill Blunden, Violet Cheung

• Publisher: Trine Day
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN: 9781937584818
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Cyber Security
• Index: Social Sciences

This book presents a data-driven message that exposes the cyberwar media campaign being directed by the Pentagon and its patronage networks. By demonstrating that the American public is being coerced by a threat that has been blown out of proportion—much like the run-up to the Gulf War or the global war on terror—this book discusses how the notion of cyberwar instills a crisis mentality that discourages formal risk assessment, making the public anxious and hence susceptible to ill-conceived solutions. With content that challenges conventional notions regarding cyber security, Behold a Pale Farce covers topics—including cybercrime; modern espionage; mass-surveillance systems; and the threats facing infrastructure targets such as the Federal Reserve, the stock exchange, and telecommunications—in a way that provides objective analysis rather than advocacy. This book is a must-read for anyone concerned with the recent emergence of Orwellian tools of mass interception that have developed under the guise of national security.

Table of contents

• CoverImage
• Title Page
• Table of Contents
• Part I – Rampant Hyperbole
• Part II – A Series of Unfortunate Events
• Part III – The Futility of Offensive Solutions
• Part IV – The Road to Cyber-Security
• Index