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Zero Day
| Title | Zero Day |
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| Date | 2024-10-11 19:25:28 |
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| Link | Listen Read |
Desciption
A technothriller for the malware and Stuxnet eraAn airliner’s controls abruptly fail mid-flight over the Atlantic. An oil tanker runs aground in Japan when its navigational system suddenly stops dead. Hospitals everywhere have to abandon their computer databases when patients die after being administered incorrect dosages of their medicine. In the Midwest, a nuclear power plant nearly becomes the next Chernobyl when its cooling systems malfunction.At first, these random computer failures seem like unrelated events. But Jeff Aiken, a former government analyst who quit in disgust after witnessing the gross errors that led up to 9/11, thinks otherwise. Jeff fears a more serious cyber terrorism attack targeting the United States computer infrastructure is already under way. And as other menacing computer malfunctions pop up around the world, some with deadly results, he realizes that there isn’t much time if he hopes to prevent an international catastrophe.Written by a global authority on cyber security, Zero Day presents a chilling “what if” scenario that, in a world completely reliant on technology, is more than possible today - it’s a cataclysmic disaster just waiting to happen.Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
Review
This is the second of the technology themed first novels that I listened to this month. Russinovich is a fairly well known programmer at Microsoft, which is to say that he is very well known in the tech community but not so much in the "real" world. This book has been raved about among techies and was reputed to be "timely". I feel bad for the guy. Really. However, you really should read an actual novel before you decide to write one. I don't mean a graphic novel or something by Elmore Leonard, although I like both. I mean something by say, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Melville. You know, a real book.The novel is not so much written as assembled, like pieces of computer code. It has all of the narrative cohesion and literary quality as compiled basic. He doesn't understand concepts like climax, epilogue, verbOK, so first you have your handsome studly (you don't look like a geek) former CIA security specialist still pining over his dead girlfriend killed on 9/11 at the World Trade Center despite his urgent warning because he saw the whole thing coming but his stupid boss wouldn't listen.Then you have your beautiful Asian OK half Asian IT director at major law firm sleeping with the managing partner there only to get murdered on account of the..One true love (after the dead girlfriend, of course) beautiful (of course) blond (of course) brilliant (of course) government agency director/former colleague who teams up with our hero and finds the time to make him forget his dead girlfriend while they dash around the world trying to save us from the mother of all malware attacks scheduled to strike on YOU GUESSED IT 9/11.Then there are the "She is no danger. After all, she is only a woman" Arab terrorist bad guys. No seriously and love scenes that made me want to cover my eyes while I was driving.Don't get me started on the Russians.This isn't a novel. It is a train wreck like Windows ME. I'm peeping through my fingers.
