Deb Radcliff's Blog

Hackers as heroes. This is the main theme in my Breaking Backbones Hacker Trilogy. Book 1: Hackers helping the world by breaking the backbone of a tech giant controlling everyone through chip implants. Book 2: Hackers finding the bad guys behind GlobeCom and outing them on social media through a powerful new AI. Book 3 (about to go to publisher): Hackers letting the AI loose to equalize society by allocating criminal gains to victims and good causes. If you haven't already, please add to my short but growing list of reviews on book 2 (It helps with the algorithms). Getting 5 stars on GoodReads. Hope you enjoy!

Excellent interview with Alissa Valentina Knight about how she shifted from gray hat to white hat hacker working for intelligence agencies, showing the vulnerabilities in car software (read her book: Hacking Connected Cars: Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures,) and hacking APIs (book coming soon) and then shifted AGAIN to creating films about hacking that are winning awards at Cannes and elsewhere! Great stories!
#embeddedsystems #apis #cybersecurity #hacking #films #tv
https://shiftleft.grammatech.com/from...

In a globally-connected world, measures like trying to stop Chinese from spying through their home-built networking gear is too little, too late. I cover some of this in book 3 of my hacker thriller series (which is out for peer review and will publish in Spring 2023). Every Apple device I own was "assembled in China." Cisco sends manufacturing to China, was doing so even as their fraud department had red pins in China manufacturing locations - I saw them when I was writing my award-winning story on fake networking gear in the LEGITIMATE SUPPLY CHAIN *aka not sold off eBay but by Gold certified Cisco distributors.) I could go on, but the fact is, we're already totally owned. Consumers, businesses, government agencies really have no recourse but to replace and rebuild with 100% US-made products, which I know nobody is going to do. Zero trust? Ha ha ha. Tell me how that works when our components are built overseas in countries like China and other monitoring societies?

See article link below, the US government wants to do away with Chinese-made tech in their enterprises!

https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/2...

Hi, all. Book 2 of my Breaking Backbones Hacker Trilogy has been released on all platforms in print and ebook formats. Audio coming in about 5 months. It's selling well on Amazon, as people have been eagerly waiting this installment. In it, GlobeCom's nefarious leaders are on the run and in hiding, but there is a new battle brewing for control over a powerful AI named Telos (for new beginnings) that could put the world back into digital bondage. At great risk, the hacker freedom fighters are using the AI to find Damian Strandeski, the criminal kingpin behind GlobeCom and the Circle, a syndicate of syndicates running all things bad on the dark web.

Read and enjoy!