Sunday, 2 March 2025

Surveillance Book List

Non-Fiction Exposés & Histories

  1. Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
  2. No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State by Glenn Greenwald
  3. The Puzzle Palace & Body of Secrets by James Bamford
  4. Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State by Barton Gellman
  5. Surveillance Valley: The Rise of the Military-Digital Complex by Yasha Levine

Privacy & Ethics

  1. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff
  2. Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier
  3. Privacy in the Age of Big Data by Theresa M. Payton & Ted Claypoole
  4. The Transparent Society by David Brin

Technical Guides & Cybersecurity

  1. The Art of Invisibility by Kevin Mitnick
  2. Hacking Exposed series by Stuart McClure, Joel Scambray, & George Kurtz
  3. Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World’s First Digital Weapon by Kim Zetter
  4. Black Code: Inside the Battle for Cyberspace by Ronald J. Deibert

Legal & Political Analysis

  1. The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom by Evgeny Morozov
  2. Spying on the Home Front: PBS Frontline Documentary (Bonus Mention)

Fiction & Dystopian Perspectives

  1. 1984 by George Orwell
  2. The Circle by Dave Eggers
  3. Little Brother & Homeland by Cory Doctorow

Cyberwarfare & Espionage

  1. Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin’s Most Dangerous Hackers by Andy Greenberg
  2. Ghost in the Wires by Kevin Mitnick

Encryption & Cryptography

  1. Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government by Steven Levy
  2. Applied Cryptography by Bruce Schneier

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