06-29-2023, 02:00 PM
Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow
Martin Hench is a forensic Accountant. He comes and finds the vulnerabilities in your systems. He's an attacker. A red team member. An old friend wants him to find some data keys that could show vulnerabilities in supposedly secure systems. Billions of dollars are at stake.
The book takes places mostly in San Francisco. It is fun for me to see places in print I've been. I don't know why that is. The mystery at the heart of the book is okay but not much to it. A lot of the book is given over to explain how great cryptocurrency is for money laundering. I'll admit these deep dives into financial technology lost me on several occasions. But then we would get back to running around the Bay Area and figuring stuff out.
I did enjoy this. It was a quick, easy read. But I'm not going to remember it in a month's time.
Martin Hench is a forensic Accountant. He comes and finds the vulnerabilities in your systems. He's an attacker. A red team member. An old friend wants him to find some data keys that could show vulnerabilities in supposedly secure systems. Billions of dollars are at stake.
The book takes places mostly in San Francisco. It is fun for me to see places in print I've been. I don't know why that is. The mystery at the heart of the book is okay but not much to it. A lot of the book is given over to explain how great cryptocurrency is for money laundering. I'll admit these deep dives into financial technology lost me on several occasions. But then we would get back to running around the Bay Area and figuring stuff out.
I did enjoy this. It was a quick, easy read. But I'm not going to remember it in a month's time.
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm