num_pages: 368
description: The incredible untold origin story of cyberwar and the hackers who unleashed it on the world tracing their journey from the ashes of the Cold War to the criminal underworld governments and even Silicon Valley. Two years before 9/11 the United States was attacked by an unknown enemy. No advance warning was given and it didn't target civilians. Instead tomahawk missiles started missing their targets US agents were swept up by hostile governments and Americas enemies seemed to know its every move in advance. A new phase of warfarecyber warhad arrived. And within two decades it escaped Pandora's Box plunging us into a state of total war where every day countless cyber attacks perpetrated by states and mercenaries are reshaping the world.After receiving an anonymous email with leaked NATO battle plans during the bombardment of Kosovo journalist Matt Potter embarked on a twenty-year investigation into the origins of cyber war and how it came to dominate the world. He uncovered its beginnings  worthy of a Bond movie  in the last days of the Cold War as the US and its allies empowered a generation of Eastern European hackers only to wake up in the late 90s to a new world order. It's a story that winds through Balkan hacking culture Russia Silicon Valley and the Pentagon introducing us to characters like a celebrity hacker with missing fingers who keeps escaping prison FBI agents chasing the first generation of cyber mercenaries in the 90s tech CEOs and Russian generals obsessed with a Cold War rematch. Never before told this is the riveting secret history of cyberwar not as governments want it to be  controlled military-directed discreet and sophisticated  but as it really anarchic chaotic dangerous and often thrilling.
language: English
title: We Are All Targets: How Renegade Hackers Invented Cyber War and Unleashed an Age of Global Chaos
publisher: Hachette Books