For that bookworm in you, here are a list of tech reads which you should check out!
To brush up your tech know-how and make you realize the surveillance world we live in, here are the Froktech's bucket list of winter reads which you should add on your bookshelf!
1. Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World
Froktech Rating: 5/5
Readers Knowledge Required: Moderate
Written by the known security and crypto expert, Data and Goliath is an advanced techie read which shows you the real world surveillance activities going on throughout the earth in every country with names and examples.
A must read for every person who needs to have in-sight on how real world surveillance works along with how companies and collect and use your data.
2. Information Doesn't Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age
Froktech Rating: 4.5/5
Readers Knowledge Level: Beginner
An open-source advocate, Cory Doctorow is one the best writers around to make you understand how the digital world works. In this book, he writes about the issues surrounding copyright, the internet and infuses your mind with new thoughts.
To have a basic know-how the digital world works and the issues surrounding it, make sure to pick up this book!
3. Little Brother
Froktech Rating: 4/5
Readers Knowledge Level: Basic
A fictional thriller by the same author, Cory Doctorow writes about surveillance, encryption, privacy, security
and freedom in his award-winning novel entitled Little Brother.
With a smart, edgy 17-year-old hacker protagonist (the kind we all
imagined ourselves to be), the book is geared toward the young adult
audience, but don’t let that stop you from reading it if you’re a
full-on adult. Doctorow doesn’t hold back from telling us what could
happen if we turn a blind eye to the erosion of our civil and digital
rights. He also, naturally, has made Little Brother and its sequel Homeland available for free digital downloading, sharing and remixing from his website. Get on it.
4. Digital Fortress
Readers Knowledge Level: Basic
Before he penned the bestseller The DaVinci Code, Dan Brown wrote Digital Fortress, a “techno-thriller” novel about the NSA’s Cryptography Division. When a disgruntled employee learns that the agency is able to read any and every email communication, he quits and takes the key with him, threatening to release it to the public. (Shades of Edward Snowden?). An absolute thriller which tells us how some agencies play with the information we generate every second.
These books would satisfy your tech diet and make you a more aware person on what you do online is continuously monitored and stored, (even in your incognito or private mode of your browser!).
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