Future Crimes: Inside The Digital Underground And The Battle For Our Connected World

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 Todays criminals are stealing identities draining online bankaccounts and wiping out computer servers Its disturbingly easy to activate baby cam monitors to spy on families pacemakers can be hacked to deliver a lethal jolt and thieves are analyzing your social media in order to determine the best time for a home invasion Meanwhile 3D printers produce AK47s 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 frontrow access to these impending perils Reading like a scifi thriller but based in startling fact Goodman raises tough questions about the expanding role