Zero Day
A Jeff Aiken Novel
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Narrated by:
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Johnny Heller
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By:
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Mark Russinovich
About this listen
A technothriller for the malware and Stuxnet era
An airliner’s controls abruptly fail mid-flight over the Atlantic. An oil tanker runs aground in Japan when its navigational system suddenly stops dead. Hospitals everywhere have to abandon their computer databases when patients die after being administered incorrect dosages of their medicine. In the Midwest, a nuclear power plant nearly becomes the next Chernobyl when its cooling systems malfunction.
At first, these random computer failures seem like unrelated events. But Jeff Aiken, a former government analyst who quit in disgust after witnessing the gross errors that led up to 9/11, thinks otherwise. Jeff fears a more serious cyber terrorism attack targeting the United States computer infrastructure is already under way. And as other menacing computer malfunctions pop up around the world, some with deadly results, he realizes that there isn’t much time if he hopes to prevent an international catastrophe.
Written by a global authority on cyber security, Zero Day presents a chilling “what if” scenario that, in a world completely reliant on technology, is more than possible today - it’s a cataclysmic disaster just waiting to happen.
©2011 Mark Russinovich (P)2012 Macmillan Audiogreat story
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What a Cracker!
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Would you listen to Zero Day again? Why?
No.I don't regret listening to it, but there's nothing particularly memorable about it and there was a lot that I found annoying the first time. There's trends like the 'good guys' being beautiful and perfect, and characters taking the less sensible choice with weak justifications just to move to the next plot point.
What was your reaction to the ending? (No spoilers please!)
It tied together nicely enough, but there were no big surprises.Which scene did you most enjoy?
Definitely not the tech-centric scenes. The book was hyped as being technically accurate given the authors background, but then you get scenes where a company's IT expert is blown away by the concept of a boot-disk. Honestly I was expecting to learn something but it feels like either the author knows very little about it, or the editor had him remove everything that the reader might not understand. Sure it's not your typical fictional sci-fi 'hacking' rubbish, but it's hardly a satisfying pillar of realism.Try as I might I can't conjure up any scenes that were memorable for the right reasons, it's just a steady stream of pretty-good punctuated with minor irritations.
If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?
Computers be scary, yo!(Honestly I have no idea)
Any additional comments?
It's not bad, but the author feels very inexperienced; so many clichés and obvious choices. You can tell whether a character is going to be good or evil based on their physical description, and there's very little grey-area.Once you accept that it's not going to be the best book you've read all year it's alright; it moves a long at a reasonable pace, and there's a decently collection of characters to follow.
It was good enough that I decided to try out the sequels as well; they're better, the author has clearly improved with practice, but they're still not fantastic.
Not bad, but a little amateurish.
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great story.
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Amazing I
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