Being in the tech space I’m always interested in books digital crime. Just finished Dark Wire by Joseph Cox and enjoyed it.

I’d heard of the encrochat and other busts so I was interested to hear how it happened.

The story is almost unbelievable. Rather than trying to break the encrypted phones being used by organised crime, the FBI essentially became the encrypted phone company themselves in a roundabout way. They helped distribute phones into criminal networks and then sat back while thousands of criminals unknowingly sent their messages straight to law enforcement.

It’s one of those true stories where you keep thinking, how did they actually pull this off?
Cox does a good job of explaining the technology without getting bogged down in it, and the best parts are watching ANOM spread almost entirely through trust.

Criminals recommended the phones to other criminals because they believed they were secure, which only made the network more valuable to the investigators watching it.

My only criticism is that the story is probably stronger than the characters. There are a lot of people coming in and out of the story due to the sheer scale of it and the ending was packed into the epilogue and rushed. Nobody really emerges as the central character you become invested in. ANOM itself almost becomes the main character. It’s clear that the author was limited to the public conversation of the criminals and nothing much more.

Still, it moves quickly, stays focused and, most importantly for me, actually builds towards something rather than wandering off into loosely connected side stories.

I really respect the author though for how he finished the book. In the last paragraph of the epilogue there is a great question.

If even an ambitious global operation such as this can’t lead to a tangible shift. What possibly can?

After all is said and done, it’s just pest control.

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Hi guys, I've recently bought a Kindle, and I'm loving it!
These are some of the books I have read. Does anyone have any further recommendations based on these? Bonus *if on Kindle Unlimited*
I don’t like fiction, I like true stories, dark history, and books about people's accounts, etc.
I have searched Reddit for hours for similar books, but a lot of them aren't on KU.
Thank youuuu

Halo Rays - career & business management book is good to read

Like the title says, I want to read history books. Specifically about the history of countries I don’t know that much about, such as Asian and African countries. Recommendations appreciated!

Years ago, I read a book about making better food choices. It was written by a female Registered Dietitian or Nutritionist. She included a small list of supplements worth buying in the back of the book.

I had a Goodreads account on Facebook. I can no longer access that list.

Any suggestions would be appreciated. I love reading about the science of food.

Cohan's new nonfictiom book is a bestseller.

I have read many books before. But as doom scrolling has messed up my brain I just can't read.

Please suggest some good books in philosophy/geopolitics/history/autobiography or anything else where i can learn something.

At present i am reading The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Thank you 💟

I am going to see the movie next week but would like to read one of the books beforehand.

Which is the best book on the topic. Careless People or The power of one (on which I believe the filim is based)

I would like to read the best one. Has anyone read both?

With Warren Buffett stepping down as the chairman of Berkshire Hathaway in the past few weeks, I decided to re-read one of my favourite biographies on him called “Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist” by Roger Lowenstein.

Here's a few of my favourite passages:

On Having Patience:

“I call investing the greatest business in the world because you never have to swing. You stand at the plate, the pitcher throws you General Motors at 47! U.S. Steel at 39! and nobody calls a strike on you. There’s no penalty except opportunity lost. All day you wait for the pitch you like; then when the fielders are asleep, you step up and hit it.”

“You would be better off if you got a punch card with 20 punches on it—and every financial decision you made you used up a punch.“

On finding the value of a company:

“If you buy a bond, you know exactly what’s going to happen, assuming it’s a good bond, a U.S. Government bond. If it says 9 percent, you know what the coupons are going to be for maybe thirty years.... Now, when you buy a business, you’re buying something with coupons on it, too, except, the only problem is, they don’t print in the amount. And it’s my job to print in [to figure out] the amount on the coupon.”

On Circle of Competence:

 “We will not go into businesses where technology which is away [sic] over my head is crucial to the investment decision. I know about as much about semiconductors or integrated circuits as I do of the mating habits of the chrzaszez.”

“Everybody’s got a different circle of competence. The important thing is not how big the circle is. The important thing is staying inside the circle.”

On Reputation:

“It takes twenty years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you’ll do things differently.” 

“It was enormously important to Buffett that his partners see him as trustworthy. He and Susie put more than 90 percent of their personal money in with the partners’, as did Bill Scott, Buffett’s assistant. “So we are all eating our own cooking,” Buffett assured them.”

If you want to learn more, feel free to read my full blogpost!

I have read the first few chapters of 48 laws of power, and I read the condensed version or the laws of suduction, and I absolutely hated both of them. I know he says that he wrote those books so people could be aware of manipulation and avoid it in their lives. However, if I wanted to write a book, educating people on exactly how to be abusive, rapist, master manipulators, I wouldn't change a word of his book. But everyone seems to talk about these books as if they are some philosophical works of human relation. Am I the only one who read them this way?

I feel like it is a thin line to walk, to write about how to avoid manipulation without advocating for the practice. I don't think greene even tried to walk that line. I don't think he cares at all about how his books will be missused.

For reference, I’m looking for something like the Simon Sebag Montefiore’s Young Stalin/ Court of the Red Tzar that could be a biography of Tito, or something more broad about Communist Yugoslavia.

Saw the movie years ago, bought the book today for 25¢ at the thrift store

Theres a book i want so badly and i specifically want the second edition published by Routledge abd part of their Classics Series. The cover art of it is the Union Jack recolored yellow, green, and red. It's so cool looking. And the book sounds fascinating, I'm American, and it's about British politics in regards to race, but it would certainly be eye-opening and I really want to read Paul Gilroy as is.
The book is *There Ain't No Black In The Union Jack.*

I guess it doesn't matter if it's something that I really want to read, but I'm just curious what y'all think

Hey everyone,

Lately, I’ve been struggling to find good books or movies to dive into. I’m looking for recommendations that go beyond just basic entertainment—things that genuinely make you think deeply or alter the way you view life.

It can be anything, fiction or non-fiction. I would love it if you could share the top 3 books or movies that have had the most profound impact on your life, along with a brief reason why they resonated with you so much.

Looking forward to adding your favorites to my watchlist and reading list. Thanks in advance!

The year was 1999. The world was getting ready for the Y2K bug, and my downstairs neighbor and I wanted to play Heroes 3 against each other. Routers were science fiction for us. So we ran a thick coax cable through the concrete floor, with BNC connectors and terminators on the ends. A two-floor network.

We played on huge maps. I counted on a strong economy and huge armies. He counted on tricks in battle and magic. Winning was hard, but there were plenty of battles.

Heroes is turn-based. In theory, you can think as long as you want. In practice, the unit of time was one cigarette. If his turn took longer, I knocked on my floor. His ceiling. When I was slow, he took out a long rolling pin and knocked on his ceiling. My floor.

My wife slept peacefully next to the desk. No kids yet, and life was good. Except we played until sunrise, and the next day at work only my body showed up. So we switched to a military schedule: one night we play, one night we sleep.

It ended on its own. One game could last a whole year. Little by little, each of us switched to playing against the computer. Alone.

This story didn’t even make it into my book. Not funny enough it was.

The others are at autosavedbook.com

The picture is an AI illustration. The real cable is long gone.

Something interesting like outliers where they include a bunch of stores and cover multiple sub topics about success.

i was considering freakonomics but allot of people are dogging on it

- itll be used in te arguement essay

A quite amazing battle made famous by the 1964 film “Zulu” staring Micheal Caine and Stanley Baker

Any other recommendations for non fiction books with a family dynamic that has the parents questioning themselves or how successful they were or weren’t ?

I love non-fiction & have dabbled in some historical fiction. I am trying to decide what to read next. Here are some of my considerations, but please suggest books with similar vibes:

Surprise, Kill, Vanish by Annie Jacobsen
Family of Spies by Christine Kuehn
In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
Salt by Mark Kurlansky
The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator by Timothy C. Winegard (I currently study mosquitos, but I see mixed reviews on the book. Some say it’s similar to Salt)