It's ok... but

The Comical attempt by the narrator to put eastern accents to some of the text is very irritating, but not as irritating as the reading of the references at the end of each sentence.

Overall ok - and a deep dive into cybercrime industry - but unfortunately the spoiled by the above.

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good info. poorly delivered. the reading of every

reading every citation is annoying and distracting
this book would benefit from a rereading by a professional reader

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Good treatise with some gaps

While the author said it took 7 years to research (which I don't doubt), I feel the tangential aspects : (1) architecting cyber crime, (2) designing processes, attack surfaces and teams of personnel and (3) minimizing risk. would have been good treatises to discuss. There was a minimal (chapter 53) but valuable discussion on what is being done to fight it/ what should be done.

The book is focused on the daily challenges of cybercrime from within the industry. While interesting, the discussion did not discuss the connection to the types of cybercrime, how they are developed, how they integrate with the different cybercrime communities, their tooling and how law enforcement seeks to penetrate, support or deny these existing and new efforts.

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Excellent Book

Author does a great job providing historical context and key insights into aspects of cyber crime. What sets his book off from others is the analytic rigor he brings to the problem.

His survey isn’t complete, but really cannot be. Nice baseline book.

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Lousy Experience

Long, rambling intro with constant reference to upcoming material. Footnotes with abbreviations were not self explanatory and destroyed my focus. The narrator is somnalent. 4 hours in I gave up. There are some good things on Audible +, but for me this was an Audible-.

interesting

enjoyable book about the inner workings of cyber crime. good content but unfortunately full of extremely annoying citations read by the lector. why would anyone do that in an audiobook?

Massively Annoying Citation of References

Half the performance must be reference citations seeming at the end of almost every sentence. Impossible to establish a flow of listening, and the most annoying performance I have ever tried to listen to. Horribly stupid decision to do this in an audiobook.

Overly Pedantic and Unnecessarily Academic

Pros: Narrator wasn't bad and Russian/Eastern European content is in depth

Cons: The author spent more time explaining how the study was done, than making impactful points. He seemed to try to make his methodology bulletproof at the expense of my attention span.

Also, he missed a MASSIVE section of study in India. There are extensive teams working to industrialize cybercrime in places like Delhi. Not sure why this was overlooked.