CYBERPHOBIA: IDENTITY, TRUST, SECURITY AND THE INTERNET

Book ID/图书代码： 11701215B80443

English Summary/英文概要： Crossing the road, we look both ways. Riding a bicycle at night, we use lights. So why is our attitude towards online security so relaxed? Edward Lucas reveals the ways in which cyberspace is not the secure zone we may hope, how passwords provide no significant obstacle to anyone intent on getting past them, and how anonymity is easily accessible to anyone - malign or benign - willing to take a little time covering their tracks.

The internet was designed by a small group of computer scientists looking for a way to share information quickly. In the last twenty years it has expanded rapidly to become a global information superhighway, available to all comers, but also wide open to those seeking invisibility. This potential for anonymity means neither privacy nor secrecy are really possible for law-abiding corporations or citizens. As identities can be faked so easily the very foundations on which our political, legal and economic systems are based are vulnerable. Businesses, governments, national security organisations and even ordinary individuals are constantly at risk and with our ever increasing dependence on the internet and smart-phone technology this threat is unlikely to diminish - in fact, the target for cyber-criminals is expanding all the time.

Not only does Cyberphobia lay bare the dangers of the internet, it also explores the most successful defensive cyber-strategies, options for tracking down transgressors and argues that we are moving into a post-digital age where once again face-to-face communication will be the only interaction that really matters.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 过马路时，我们通常会看看两边的车辆，晚上骑自行车时，我们会使用探照灯，但为何我们对于网络安全却如此松懈呢？作者Edward Lucas揭露了为何网络空间并非我们希望的那样安全，一些别有居心的人是如何轻易破解网络密码的，以及那些试图掩盖其踪迹的人是如何利用匿名特性的。

英特网是由一小批电脑科学家设计，旨在寻找快速共享信息的方式。过去的20年里，英特网迅速扩张，已经成为了全球信息高速公路，对所有人开放，但同时也对那些试图“隐身”的网络用户敞开。这一匿名的潜在属性意味着对于奉公守法的企业或个人而言，英特网都不可能真正保护隐私或达到安全。由于身份可以轻易伪造，我们的政治、法律、经济体系赖以生存的基础随时面临着风险。公司、政府、国家安全组织，甚至是普通的公民，都受到网络威胁，而且，随着英特网和智能手机的普及，这一威胁不可能消褪——事实上，网络犯罪分子的目标正在进一步扩大。不仅电脑恐惧症暴露在网络的危险下，连最成功的网络防御策略也遭到威胁。（LYR）

Awards/获奖情况：“批评我们的愚蠢行为（行事如此草率），Lucas这样做是对的。”——Max Hastings，《星期日泰晤士报》

“本书兼具娱乐和教育，在作者Lucas的笔下，我们的自鸣得意与俄国的雷厉风行、足智多谋形成了鲜明的对比。”——《星期天邮报》

“本书以辩论的方式提出了这一观点：西方世界仍旧低估了普京统治下的俄国带来的威胁，令人影响深刻。”——《星期日泰晤士报》

Putin [and] his friends ... are gangsters on a scale that makes Al Capone or the Corleones seem small-time ... Lucas is right to castigate our folly in treating all this so lightly (Max Hastings, Sunday Times on Deception)

Entertaining and informative ... Lucas contrasts our complacency and delusion with Russia’s ruthless ingenuity (Mail on Sunday, on The New Cold War)

Highly informed, crisply written and alarming ... Outstanding (Evening Standard, on The New Cold War)

An impressive polemic arguing that the West still underestimates the danger that Putin’s Russia poses (Sunday Times on The New Cold War)

About the Author/作者介绍： Edward Lucas现任《经济学家报》高级编辑，自1986年起一直从事东欧方面的报道，曾被派往柏林、莫斯科、布拉格、维也纳以及波罗的诸国，他擅长能源、网络安全、俄国外交与安全政策以及东欧政治与经济领域。此外，Lucas定期为BBC“今日”和“晚间新闻”节目以及NPR、CNN等媒体供稿，曾著有《新冷战》一书，该书定期更新，并且已经翻译成超过15种语言。他现居伦敦，太太是专栏作家Cristina Odone。

Edward Lucas is a senior editor at the Economist. He has been covering Eastern Europe since 1986, with postings in Berlin, Moscow, Prague, Vienna, and the Baltic states. His expertise includes energy, cyber-security, espionage, Russian foreign and security policy and the politics and economics of Eastern Europe. He is a regular contributor to the BBC’s Today and Newsnight programmes, and to NPR, CNN and Sky News. He is the author of The New Cold War which is regularly updated and has been published in more than fifteen languages. He is married to the columnist Cristina Odone and lives in London.

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