Black code: inside the battle for cyberspace

"Cyberspace is all around us. We depend on it for everything we do. We have reengineered our business, governance, and social relations around a planetary network unlike any before it. But there are dangers looming, and malign forces are threatening to transform this extraordinary domain. In Black code, Ronald J. Deibert, a leading expert on digital technology, security, and human rights, lifts the lid on cyberspace and shows what's at stake for Internet users and citizens. As cyberspace develops in unprecedented ways, powerful agents are scrambling for control. Predatory cyber criminal gangs such as Koobface have made social media their stalking ground. The discovery of Stuxnet, a computer worm reportedly developed by Israel and the United States and aimed at Iran's nuclear facilities, showed that state cyberwar is now a very real possibility. Governments and corporations are in collusion and are setting the rules of the road behind closed doors." --Publisher description.

Introduction: Cyberspace: Free, restricted, unavoidable -- Chasing shadows -- Filters and chokepoints -- Big data: They reap what we sow -- The China syndrome -- The next billion digital natives -- We the people...of Facebook -- Policing cyberspace: Is there an "other request" on the line? -- Meet Koobface: A cyber crime snapshot -- Digitally armed and dangerous -- Fanning the flames of cyber warfare -- Stuxnet and the argument for clean war -- The internet is officially dead -- A zero day no more -- Anonymous: Expect us -- Towards distributed security and stewardship in cyberspace.