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REVIEW: "Cloud Crash", Phil Edwards
From: "Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rmslade () shaw ca>
Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 18:18:53 -0700
BKCLDCRS.RVW 20101009 "Cloud Crash", Phil Edwards, 2011, 978-1466408425, U$9.99 %A Phil Edwards PhilEdwardsInc.com philipjedwards () gmail com %C Seattle, WA %D 2011 %G 978-1466408425 1466408421 %I CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform/Amazon %O U$9.99 %O http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1466408421/robsladesinterne http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1466408421/robsladesinte-21 %O http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/1466408421/robsladesin03-20 %O Audience n Tech 2 Writing 1 (see revfaq.htm for explanation) %P 386 p. %T "Cloud Crash" To a background of the Internet crashing, and opposed by a conspiracy that has penetrated the highest levels of government, two (no, make that three ... err ... four ... better say five ...) groups of individuals race to save the world from ... a stock market fraud? hostile takeover? aliens? (No, I'm pretty sure the aliens were a red herring.) The story and inconsistent characterizations could use some work, and the plot twists don't make it very easy to follow what is going on. It's fairly easy to tell who the good and bad guys are: the politics and philosophy of the book are fairly simple, and one is reminded of the scifi and comics of the 30s and 40s, with heavily anti-fascist and (ironically) right-wing rhetoric. It would be tempting to dismiss the work as a simple "jump on the latest buzzword" potboiler, were it not for the fact that the technology is fairly realistic. Yes, right now everyone is jumping on the cloud bandwagon without much regard for real security. Yes, if you wanted to make a big (and public) splash on the Internet, without doing too much permanent damage, taking down power supplies would still leave the data intact. (Of course, an axe would do just as good a job as bombs ...) So, while the story isn't great, at least the technology is less annoying than is normally the case ... copyright, Robert M. Slade 2012 BKCLDCRS.RVW 20101009 ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) rslade () vcn bc ca slade () victoria tc ca rslade () computercrime org The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door. - Frederick Brown, world's shortest horror story victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm http://www.infosecbc.org/links http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ http://twitter.com/rslade _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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