What would it take to hack a human? How exploitable are we? In the
cybersecurity industry, professionals know that the weakest component of
any system sits between the chair and the keyboard. This book looks to
speculative fiction, cyberpunk and the digital humanities to bring a
human - and humanistic - perspective to the issue of cybersecurity. It
argues that through these stories we are able to predict the future
political, cultural, and social realities emerging from technological
change.
Making the case for a security-minded humanities education, this book
examines pressing issues of data security, privacy, social engineering
and more, illustrating how the humanities offer the critical, technical,
and ethical insights needed to oppose the normalization of surveillance,
disinformation, and coercion.
Within this counter-cultural approach to technology, this book offers a
model of activism to intervene and meaningfully resist government and
corporate oversight online. In doing so, it argues for a wider notion of
literacy, which includes the ability to write and fight the computer
code that shapes our lives.