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One of the world's leading regulators on global security, Marc Goodman calls for listeners deep in to the digital underground to expose the alarming ways thieves, companies, and even countries are using new and emerging solutions against you - and how this makes everyone more susceptible than ever thought. Technological developments have benefited our world in immeasurable ways, but there is an ominous flip area: Our technology can be turned against us. Hackers can switch on baby monitors to spy on families, thieves are examining social media posts to plot home invasions, and stalkers are exploiting the Gps device on smart cell phones to keep tabs on their subjects' every move. Everybody knows today's thieves can take identities, drain online bank or investment company accounts, and wipe out computer machines, but that's just the beginning. Up to now, no computer has been created that could not be hacked - a sobering truth given our radical reliance on these machines for everything from our nation's electricity grid to air traffic control to financial services. Yet, as ubiquitous as technology seems today, just over the horizon is a tidal influx of scientific improvement that will leave our heads spinning. If today's Internet is how big is a golf ball, tomorrow's will be the size of the sun. Welcome to the Internet of Things, a full time income, breathing, global information grid where every physical subject will be online. But with higher connections come higher dangers. Implantable medical devices such as pacemakers can be hacked to deliver a lethal jolt of electricity and a car's brakes can be disabled at high speed from kilometers away. In the meantime, 3-D printers can produce AK-47s, bioterrorists can download the recipe for Spanish flu, and cartels are using fleets of drones to ferry drugs across edges. With explosive insights established upon a profession in police and counterterrorism, Marc Goodman calls for listeners on the vivid trip through the darkest recesses of the Internet.
