With lucidity and wit, Shapiro establishes that cybercrime has less to do with defective programming than with faulty wiring of our psyches and society. He exposes the hackers' tool kits and gives fresh answers to vital questions: why is the internet so vulnerable? What can we do in response? This is an account of the future of hacking, espionage and war and of how to live in an era of cybercrime. An entertaining tour of the logic of the internet and the dangers of cyber security.