Millions of individuals depend on the internet for information,
communication, commerce and the conduct of personal business.
Corporations depend on the internet for business-to-business and
global intra and inter-business functions. The internet has become
foundational to our lives. There is hardly a month that goes by
that we don't become aware of computer viruses, internet scams or
business frauds and failures. How about WikiLeaks? Paperless, by A.
Townsend Marshall, shows how eerily plausible it would be to
compromise the internet and take undetected control of it. Maybe
Assange read Paperless. The novel is fiction, but . . . A computer
scientist and doctoral candidate, Rich Fuller, proposes as his
thesis a study to uncover weaknesses and propose remedies to the
evolving internet. He is rebuffed by his doctoral committee and
drops out of academia. The disenfranchised computer scientist sets
out to prove his thesis by developing sophisticated software that
exploits the internet and any business or individual who transacts
over it. Fuller uses his ideas to develop highly successful
businesses and commercial computer applications. Al Matheson is a
happily retired IT executive who also had met the challenges of
suspect business practices over the years. He is lured by out of
retirement by an old friend to 'lead just one last challenging
project'. The project is to implement Rich Fuller's so called
commercial systems in a leading-edge manufacturing company. Success
is mandatory for this company's future. A team of consultants, led
by Al Matheson, is beset with unexplainable anomalies when they try
to implement Rich Fuller's commercial packages. Their pursuit for
answers leads the team down a winding path of personal devastation
and murder. Technological assault on the world's most critical
systems ensues. Could it happen now or in the future? Paperless
shows just how and with a chilling conclusion as to what may lay
ahead. Maybe the Assanges of the world are laying the way and a
harbinger of cyber terror yet to play out.
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