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eNikita (Paperback)
John-Patrick Skaar, Carlos C Solari
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R456
Discovery Miles 4 560
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They "knew everything about us," the grandmother told the Norwegian
police investigators between her tears. Ten-year old Grete was
going to meet her teacher in school. It all seemed so "normal" said
the grandparents. A hacker named Frank and a triad of Norwegian,
Europol and FBI investigators convene to "find Grete." There is
more at stake that has mobilized the cross-Atlantic cooperation.
What they don't know is that they have opened the door to the game
of power getting played in the new domain of cyberspace where real
and virtual (cyber) space collide and the rules of trust need to be
rethought. They "know everything about us" is how the game gets
played. Politics will get in the way and they will find Grete, just
not alive. That is Frank's fear. In a dizzying rush of hack and
counter hack, the forces of good bring together an odd assortment
of heroes. Monika learned her trade in Russia as one of the
original Anons as in the Anonymous. Frank started hacking in the
nineties and Jaime, now an FBI Special Agent leads the elite cyber
squad from the NYC field office. The Norwegian lead investigator
from KRIPOS is Fredrick Hansen who is nearing the end of his
career. He remembers why it was that he had first joined. It means
everything to "find Grete." A timely book that tells a story of
fiction in the context of a present day international concern with
privacy and security. It is a concern felt individually as in
reputation and privacy and in the large stage of international
commerce, national interests and the transition to all things
electronic and virtual. Where does it stop? Are there any controls
in place and can we have it both ways; have the social media
applications and still control our individual privacy? Can we have
an effective modern government and still retain the right of free
speech to criticize those that govern by the will of the people.
There are no larger topics facing society today. The public is
caught in the crosshairs. The President of Brazil spoke to this
topic at the United Nations when she said that individual privacy
is at the heart of a free democracy, you can't have one without the
other. eNikita takes this subject even deeper as the accelerating
drive of technology harbors things that have seemed beyond the
reach of the human endeavor. While the story is about the
kidnapping of a young girl, the reader is constantly aware that
something else is in play. Technology is power. This is where this
story goes. It has a name, The Singularity, when humans transcend
their own biology. The young heroine, Grete, gives this complex
story of power and technology a very real human face filled with
all the human emotions and the thrill of what happens when good
people put aside their personal agendas and the politics of things
to battle the worst kind of evil that can exist.
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