(Part 2) Reddit mentions: The best true crime biographies

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Thanks for the opportunity to clarify.

Your "EDIT" questions first, to briefly get them out of the way:

>Was John D. Marks book on MKULTA a limited hangout also? (sic)

In fact: Operation DORMOUSE was launched by the CIA to make MKULTRA a limited hangout, yes, for the much more damaging Operation ARTICHOKE. This doesn't necessarily reflect on the Marks book itself, but the operation, bad as it was, wasn't the Full Monty.

>Alfred W. McCoy? Gary Webb? Hastings? Seymour Hesh? (sic)

The notorious fascist CIA legend James Jesus Angleton was famous for a quote that reality is a "wilderness of mirrors". What Angleton meant was that "direct proof" means almost nothing and can be staged; "indirect proof" such as that identified via secondary evidence and "mirrors" often offers more authentic forensic evidence about the nature of reality.

In other words, nobody is to be trusted except through a thorough vetting using indirect authentication -- and even then, within the intelligence world, the CIA classifies their own patsies as "Witting Accomplices" and "Unwitting Accomplices".

Thus, all of these names are left open to personal & subjective interpretation. I personally value & trust each of the names you've listed here as vitally important. But I have my own system of determining trust; I always leave room for doubt; and, in a serious analysis, trust can be partial; sometimes accomplices are unwitting and unaware of poisoned information they've been given.

It gets complicated. With everybody.

Our judgement of where to "draw the line" on each person will vary. My personal opinion is that anti-fascism is paramount; does each person's information/actions enable fascism, or hinder it?

Sometimes that answer requires a broader scope of vision -- for example: sometimes a president, such as Obama, can appear to be anti-fascist & pro-democracy in his words and occasionally his deeds, but at key points (banking reform, intelligence community reform), he "accidentally" drops the ball. What does gay marriage matter, if he let the Operation Paperclip Nazis in the CIA get drones & warrantless wiretapping & unhindered freedom to stage banking meltdowns?

Sometimes red flags appear & questions arise for a person who seemingly, ostensibly, is a reformer or a crusader or whistleblower.

The important issue is: How do we handle those red flags & questions?

Do we simply disregard red flags? Does the greater balance of their contributions weigh in favor of justice? Even if their contributions weigh in favor of justice, is there a poison pill present that has been intentionally planted?

Such is the nature of the dark world of corrupt intelligence agencies -- and rogue shadow factions secretly working inside these agencies -- that we unquestionably live in -- a world where we probably need to ask these questions.

>I'd love to know where you draw the line between courageous journalists and whistleblowers and nefarious limited hangout?

This is the key question of our times. Most of us refuse to ask the question. Some of us find it necessary to be satisfied with face value. Some of us look for sub rosa schemes. Some of us try to follow the mystery, looking for forensic clues.

Sometimes it's more informative not to look for answers.

Sometimes it's more informative to look for the questions.

>Watergate?

Yes, Watergate was absolutely a limited hangout. I am hardly the first with this opinion. The first book suggesting so was Silent Coup ... I recommend the more recent Family of Secrets.

>So you think the government is exposing themselves doing shit like [various links] ... all that, with more stories coming every week, in order to cover up some other heinous activities? Because I have to tell you, I don't think that makes any sense at all.

I see where you're coming from, and I've found you to be one of the more knowledgeable persons on this subreddit.

But, first, I'm not the only one who has noticed many questions & red flags concerning Snowden & Greenwald -- both of whom have done some great services to the cause of freedom. That doesn't preclude the possibility that they (a) might be Unwitting Accomplices who are being used to present a piece of theatre, as intelligence communities so often do; or (b) that there may be red flags present which we should be aware of in their own personal motives or backgrounds or associations -- each of which, incidentally, are all measures of information that intel analysts would use against both them and us in their own analysis.

So, then: Here's a list of very good articles worth reading which present challenges and questions to our understanding of the story of Snowden & Greenwald:

• The Risks of Trusting The Snowden Story / Kevin Ryan, 9/11 Truth researcher & author
  
  
• Would You Feel Differently About Snowden, Greenwald, and Assange If You Knew What They Really Thought? / New Republic
  
  
• The Extraordinary Pierre Omidyar: His Economic Advisor Is Literally A Latin American "Dirty War" Criminal Who Teamed With A Dictator
  
  
• Ex-CIA whistleblower accuses Snowden of having ulterior agenda
  
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My first master's degree was in Intelligence Studies with a concentration in Intelligence Operations.

My two favorite books are supplemental to each other but talk about the the US v. the USSR during the mid 80s to late 90s. One is from the perspective a former CIA case officer and the other is from the perspective of a former KGB case officer.

The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB by Milt Bearden
Spy Handler: Memoir of a KGB Officer

A great overview of intelligence history is A Century of Spies: Intelligence in the Twentieth Century by Jeffery T. Richelson. Richelson is very knowledgeable about intelligence history and well respected as one of the premiere historians in the field. He has written a ton of other books and I imagine they're pretty good and worthwhile.

Finally, Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis is a great book not only about the Cuban Missile Crisis but examining how national security decisions are made.

One of my favorite books is Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman. It's 40 short stories, like 2-3 pages long with 40 possibilities of what happens after death. It is so incredibly creative and really makes you think! It's a super quick read, too. I honestly could not put it down.
I don't want to spoil it, but here is the Amazon page for it, which has some examples if you'd like to read them. ;) For example, "In one afterlife you may find that God is the size of a microbe and is unaware of your existence" or "In a different version of the afterlife you work as a background character in other people's dreams." And those aren't even the coolest ones! I 100000% recommend you get this book!

If I were to win, I would like
Adnan's Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial. Thank you! And happy world book day!!!

I saw it when it first came out a long time ago. I remember reading about Mitnick from this book http://www.amazon.com/CYBERPUNK-Outlaws-Hackers-Computer-Frontier/dp/0684818620 so, I was really excited to see the movie, but It felt very 'made for TV' quality. Not nessecarily inaccurate, just treated more like a cop drama.


The book was very good, as was Bruce Sterling's http://www.amazon.com/The-Hacker-Crackdown-Disorder-Electronic/dp/055356370X


I emailed Mr. Sterling about hacking when I was in highschool, and he was one of the first people to suggest that I not take it too far, and instead work towards building things. I still follow that advice today.


Also, if you haven't read it yet, The Cuckoos Egg was a fun read http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0083DJXCM?btkr=1


It was that book that inspired me to work as a programmer for a university.


Good movies about hacking are few and far between, I'm afraid. It's all too easy to use Hacking as 'magic', and just make it rediculous.

Heya! Great questions:

1. I haven't actually seen Traffic! It's like one of the few drug war movies that's slipped through my fingers. Gotta get it moved up on the list, along with El Infierno and Cartel Land. Always more research to do! So... I think Traffic influenced the game, but probably through secondary vectors (like Sicario).
   
   
2. I mean... Sicario is a great example. Josh Brolin's character (El Güero) doesn't care about justice; Emily Blunt's character (La Esperanzada) is in way over her head. Similar dynamic between Ruben Blades and Johnny Depp in Once Upon a Time in Mexico.
   
   I'm excited about these playbooks because they seem like natural allies...but they are probably more opposed than most of the playbooks in the game! It will be neat to see what happens when they both show up in the same session.
   
   
3. I do hope that people take away some understanding of the nature of the drug war from the game. All of the people who are affected are in a terrible position because we (Americans) don't want to take our addictions seriously. We're hoping we can legislate them away or pretend they don't exist. Nothing will stop the murders and the pain and the suffering short of some sort of legalization or decriminalization.
   
   As for books/resources, I would recommend El Narco:
   
   https://www.amazon.com/El-Narco-Mexicos-Criminal-Insurgency/dp/1608194019
   
   It's a fantastic resource, written with a real sense of the style of Mexico and the absurd irony of the whole situation. I think it's a great read.
   
   And thank you! Excited that you're excited!

Yeah I read the wiki link. Did you? Not only does the top summary avoid stating that it is only a strain within socialism ("e.g." does not mean the same thing as "i.e.", pro-tip, and "left-wing" in the US does not mean "Socialist") but they link this group in "see also":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Freedom_Caucus

who are Democratic politicians.

I don't care who invented the term "libertarian" since I am talking about the US libertarian movement in the 1990s.

You are trying to shift a conversation about how American citizens see themselves and others in the political spectrum to a discussion of word usage among academic political theorists.

You like academic theory so try this 1975 publication on for size. Seminal work in what later became known as "left libertarian" thought, which is less an appropriation directly from socialist terminology and more a statement of affiliation with libertarian ideas about "victimless crimes" while repudiating libertarian ideas about taxes, property, race, etc.

https://www.ncjrs.gov/App/Publications/abstract.aspx?ID=15304

It's available as an Amazon e-book. Cited 84 times.

On a more popular level, there were a lot of books like this one:

https://www.amazon.com/Aint-Nobodys-Business-You-Consensual/dp/192976717X

Every time I start looking at the claims of game fixing and ties to the mob the sources all end up coming back to this book by Dan Moldea. The book he wrote previously is "Dark Victory: Ronald Reagan, MCA, and the Mob (1986)" so he has a history of making grandiose claims about the reach of the mob. Anyway, he published "Interference" which brought about this review from the New York Times. Read it. The thing reads like a hit piece on the writer's creditability. So he did what you do when you think you've been libeled and sued. Which brings us to this judgement where the court ruled in favor of the New York Times. The reason for summary judgement being that the claims in the review are true. It is sloppy "journalism" poorly written, poorly reasoned, and often factually inaccurate.

But, let's just consider the idea of game fixing by the NFL without this "source". For the league to arrange game fixing, that means at least 1 high ranking league official, 1 head referee, and 1 owner has to be involved in a secret direct and plot to fix games. But, refs are reviewed and corrected so the reviewers and the head of officiating have to be involved to keep that head referee in place. All of those people need to be compensated appropriately and secretly so that it doesn't become apparent that this is going on which means money laundering and tax evasion has to be accomplished and requires other people to do. After that you need the TV producer, commentators, and reporters not to draw attention to this issue so they need to be paid too. Finally, you need enough people to be stupid enough not to notice this going on under their noses or to willfully ignore the impact on a sport most of them love and not say anything. Then you need that to happen for 40 years. Hundreds of people in multiple separate companies over 40 years to perpetuate 1 game a week of fixing in a shadowy organization with none of them coming forward except for one author 30 years ago. That's a pretty hard to swallow claim when there is no incentive for the practice that isn't served just as well by the real result of a competition.

>Whole business model of crypto is to FOMO people into buying high and selling low. There is literally nothing you can do to predict whether the price is going up or down. It is pure gambling. If you want to gamble, go to Vegas. Gambling there is regulated and you odds of winning are much better than in crypto wild west.

>The best way to deal with FOMO is to understand that you can have FOMO about anything. Does FOMO of winning a lottery keep you up at night? I think not.

Seconded. FOMO is the core of all cryptocurrency speculation (and bubbles generally), but it's not unique to it.

The good news is this means almost all of the advice for dealing with other kinds of FOMO—like seeing other people's "better" lives on social media—works just as well for crypto.

Consider these articles on dealing with FOMO, mentally replacing "Facebook" with "crypto charts", "social events" with "investment opportunities", and "exciting experiences" with "easy 10x gains":

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/stronger-the-broken-places/201501/10-ways-overcome-fear-missing-out

https://lifehacker.com/how-can-i-overcome-my-fear-of-missing-out-1148725866

For some more direct advice on defeating crypto FOMO, I highly recommend reading Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain ($5 on Kindle, link is the author's referral link, not mine).

A lot of it is basically about why the underlying economics is nonsense, which you've already figured out based on your post, but chapters 4 and 8 were what killed any remaining jealousy I had over the people who actually did buy Bitcoin ten years ago.

Basically, it made me realize two important things. First, many of those hypothetical gains aren't real. They're just numbers on a screen until you actually cash out. And cashing out is significantly harder than it seems. So when someone shows me a chart saying I could have turned a few hundred US Dollars into a pile of Bitcoin worth tens of thousands of USD Tethers, I know that their numbers aren't fully reflective of what I would actually be seeing in real-world cash gains right this moment.

Second, the ease and frequency of scams, hacks, user error, and general malfeasance means that the raw numbers don't reflect the actual risk. Let's say I had a bunch of Bitcoin in 2010. Well, I probably would have had in Mt. Gox, like most people who were doing anything other than sitting on a cold wallet. And then I would have lost them when Mt. Gox got hacked and shut down. Whee.

And if not Mt. Gox? Between 2010 and 2016, a third of all exchanges had been hacked and almost half had closed. Who cares that my original "investment" nominally goes up 10x if I lose 90% of it in the meantime?

I'm pretty smart, but I'm not psychic; I would be fooling myself to think I would have cleverly avoided all the bad options and only taken the precise actions that would have let me navigate the field of scammers and hackers and successfully cash out with my entire wallet intact over the span of eight years. So what am I actually "missing out" on?

I've been reading this book recently, and I definitely recommend it, but both sides pretty much know who is diplomatic staff and who is intelligence with an official cover. They just don't do anything because of diplomatic reasons, besides heavily monitoring their activities. I'm sure Russia already has a list of CIA guys in the embassies.

The people in Russia on unofficial covers is a whole other thing.

The short answer is "not very" - the long answer is very complicated.

The absolute best book on the topic (IMHO) is "Violent Entrepreneurs" by Vadim Volkov. I'll quote a brief description from a previous post on this:

> Before the fall of the Soviet Union, there were a variety of experiments to liberalize the economy. These experiments created small markets with little regulation, but did not resolve the wider issues of scarcity that plagued the economy. The result was a massive breeding ground for criminal enterprise - mainly protection rackets. When the USSR collapsed, these professional (and criminal) enterprises became one of the few sources of order. The provided protection, resources, and money to a wide variety of businesses. As such, they were also the greatest concentrations of wealth in the new economy.

>After the fall, many public enterprises (power, gas, oil, etc.) went up for sale. These criminal groups were some of the major investors (and sometimes sole purchasers) of these MASSIVE organizations. So essentially you now have what is known as a kleptocracy - in which illegitimately-gained wealth allows for a massive economic takeover. Out of this period of violence, instability, and expanding enterprise, grew a group of oligarchs who hold immense power in Russia.

>The oligarchs are not the only game in town though. After the fall, members of The Party - particularly the KGB - still had many resources and connections at their disposal. In the new Russian state, many of these figures consolidated a vast amount of influence - including an ambitious KGB officer named Vladimir Putin. Putin rose the power through the "new KGB" - the FSB - and through some fairly ruthless maneuvers, became one of the few people capable of subduing the influence of the oligarchy.

>It should be mentioned there are a lot of cultural issues at play - massive racism, a long history of appreciation for a "strong hand" in charge, an ancient issue of Russian identity (are we European, or are we Asian?), that facilitate a much different political process in Russia. But at the core of the difficulties of the RF is really this unique nexus of crime, government, and business.

Where to start....

You're OK It's Just a Bruise - A Doctor's Sideline Secrets About Pro Football's Most Outrageous Team by Rob Huizenga. As a team doctor for the Raiders during the 80s, Huizenga has access to Al Davis, Howie Long, Lyle Alzado, and others. Another in a long line of books that shows player medical treatment is poor.

Interference: How Organized Crime Influences Professional Football by Dan Moldea. Eye opening stuff about the connections between the owners and the mafia. It raises suspicions on rigged games in the history of the NFL and also goes into the gambling connections.

Bringing the Heat by Mark Bowden. A great book about the Eagles of the early 90s. It goes into the lack of injury treatment, follows Reggie White and Buddy Ryan, and touches on Jerome Brown's death and it's impact to the team.

Boys Will Be Boys: The Glory Days and Party Nights of the Dallas Cowboys Dynasty by Jeff Pearlman. I grew up hating the 90s Cowboys, but it was nice to read about the inside of that team. The book goes into the personalities, the Jones-Johnson clash, the Irvin - McIver stabbing, and the cocaine houses.

The Dark Side of the Game by Tim Green. Another great book that goes into detail about drug tests, injuries, treatment, and everything that goes on in an NFL locker room. One of my favorites.

Happy to Be Alive by Darryl Stingley. This is an autobiography of receiver Darryl Stingley chronicling his life before and after the paralyzing hit by Jack Tatum.

Meat on a Hoof by Gary Shaw. It talks about college football at UT in the 70s. The treatment of the players was pretty shocking to read. This is one you can find cheaper in a used bookstore.

I don't really like "your sister died in the street last week", because as far as I know my sister didn't die in the street last week. It should be "his" sister or "her" or "somebody's" sister died in the street last week, because that would be true and you should never, ever lie in a song. Or so I've heard. Other than that it's the best thing I've heard lately.

I should listen to it again but I don't remember a coda or bridge or solo, that stuff is important.

You're a good singer and I think this is a keeper song, my recommendation is to read Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34 and write a few more verses. more is always better, throw em out later

chorus is good.

If you are interested excellent football hooligan dramas then I strongly recommend these two

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.D._(1995_film)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Firm_(1989_film)

For books then

Bill Buford's - Among the thugs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Among_the_Thugs

Tony O'Neill - Red Army General


http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1903854458?pc_redir=1405206553&robot_redir=1

Tony O'Neill - Men in Black

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1903854520?pc_redir=1405428117&robot_redir=1

Cass is a good story too

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1844545997?pc_redir=1405174410&robot_redir=1

Yes, it's as simple as that. For regular landline telephones of course. Because there's no data channel, there has to be a way for the consumer to tell(signal) the central office that the phone line needs connected to where they are trying to reach.

For years, the connections between central offices were also using a similar system to communicate between their electronic systems, ie their "switches" as they were called.

There was even a large community of people who took advantage of how the system worked to obtain free phone calls. They were called phreakers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_box

For a fascinating read about the early years of phreaking see

Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws who Hacked Ma Bell https://www.amazon.com/dp/B009SAV5W0/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_.uV9Bb9Y40GGD

I've met the author. A key takeaway which he leaves out is that despite changes to the telephone systems that happened in the 80s, clever methods existed that allowed these same concepts to work well into the 2000s. And this doesn't include what's possible with VoIP.

The book "Gangs of New York" by Herbert Asbury that the movie was loosely based on is an awesome pseudo/folk history that I think she'd enjoy if she's into fantasy. Other than that, I don't know. There isn't any sort of universal NYC thing my friends here all seem to have. I don't really have anything with New York on it aside from my mountain of Rangers gear. Definitely don't get like, a skyline photo or something like that. That's an NYU freshman move.

I agree Bea, he was in love with Perry.

Try Public Enemies it's a really interesting look at the bank robbers of the 1920s.

Martin Scorcese read the 1927 book Gangs of New York in 1970.

Tried to get it made through the 70's and it came out in 2002.


32 years after he read the book

> The odyssey began on January 1, 1970, when Scorsese, staying at a friend's house, ran across a copy of The Gangs of New York, Herbert Asbury's 1928 history of Five Points. Scorsese immediately called a friend, screenwriter Jay Cocks. "Marty said, 'Think of it like a Western in outer space,' " Cocks recalls with a laugh. It was all very "seventies."

Far less and far less informedly than /u/dgerard, who's written a book on the topic: Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain.

My general sense is that Bitcoin (and cryptocurrencies in general) are the best educational programme on the benefits of central banking authority ever devised.

There are some potentially useful applications of blockchain, though I strongly suspect they're not in the area of cryptocurrencies. One that I'm exploring is th idea of a publicly-disclosed, auditable, PKI key regeneration or recovery system. I'm not sure that that's quite possible, but it may be, and could prove useful.

Wow thanks for the gold and the sticky, glad to see other people find this interesting too. Not gonna lie I'm also pretty excited about getting tweeted by MachinePlanet.

It's easy to draw parallels between any 2 things, but the volume of similarities here goes beyond that. I reread Bad Blood recently and didn't see nearly this much overlap. The main takeaway is that both Enron and Tesla started out with good intentions but their arrogance wouldn't allow them to admit when things needed to change.

Anyone interested in this type of thing should definitely check out The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron. Here's a few other recommendations that cover business failures. And of course if you haven't read Bad Blood yet do that as soon as possible, can't recommend it highly enough.

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Billion Dollar Whale: How an opportunist stole 2 billion dollars from Malaysia's government and blew the money on parties with Leo DiCaprio

https://www.amazon.com/Billion-Dollar-Whale-Fooled-Hollywood/dp/1478947993

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House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street: The rise and fall of Bear Stearns

https://www.amazon.com/House-Cards-Hubris-Wretched-Excess/dp/0767930894

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When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management: How a hedge fund run by geniuses, including 2 Nobel prize winners, lost 4 billion of capital in just a few years.

https://www.amazon.com/When-Genius-Failed-Long-Term-Management/dp/0375758259

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Fatal Risk: A Cautionary Tale of AIG's Corporate Suicide: How AIG ended up needing an $85 billion bailout during the housing crisis

https://www.amazon.com/Fatal-Risk-Cautionary-Corporate-Suicide/dp/0470889802

Might I also recommend [Steven Levy's Hackers] (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003PDMKIY/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1) and [David Lundstrom's A Few Good Men From UNIVAC] (https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/few-good-men-univac&ved=0ahUKEwjpqoDaxM7VAhUCxWMKHTOPBlwQFghnMBE&usg=AFQjCNGc3A5I8kCL4nccBXVEGf8tBqEy1A).

Both very good reads. I have plenty others ([Cliff Stoll's Cukoo's Egg] (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0083DJXCM/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1) is an annual read the me).

Well I can almost guarantee you I'm more educated on post-Soviet Russia than you are.

I just finished reading Jon Dunlop's The Moscow Bombings of September 1999. It's an extraordinary read.

Care to discuss the subject with me? Or any subject relating to post-Soviet Russia? I'm going for a run but I'll look forward to the productive and very civil conversation :)

>plus the 2 journalists from Wall Street Journal, instead of some triad gangster.

Buy their book. That's the best award you can give them.

So you expect Gov. Hogan to run Maryland's Twitter feed?

Do you really think the State of Maryland is wasting money on a PR campaign for a PCR proceeding? Maybe I'd agree with you if there was a pro-guilt podcast, or a celebrity taking up the banner for Hae's family, or even Hae's family taking an active part in the media surrounding the case. None of that is happening.

On the other hand, we have TV shows in which Adnan's defense team and advocates were interviewed, but the State's weren't (http://www.investigationdiscovery.com/tv-shows/adnan-syed-innocent-or-guilty/).

We have TV segments in which Adnan's defense team and advocates are interviewed (http://www.msnbc.com/shift/watch/the-docket-serial-special-part-ii-422338627656).

We have Adnan's alibi witness going on television shows (http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/twist-adnan-syed-serial-murder-trial-41610902).

We have two books discussing Adnan's innocence (https://www.amazon.com/Adnans-Story-Search-Justice-Serial/dp/1250087104 and https://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Serial-Alibi-McClain-Chapman/dp/1682611582/).

And I haven't even reiterated the things I mentioned earlier in this thread. Take a look at all that, and tell me which side appears to be using the media in this case.

Quite a few books have been referenced in interviews - here's some of the ones I think I remember. They're all very good books despite any association with Radiohead, by the way.

How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found

http://www.amazon.com/How-Disappear-Completely-Never-Found/dp/087947257X

The Crying of Lot 49 (also V. and Gravity's Rainbow)

http://www.amazon.com/Crying-Lot-Perennial-Fiction-Library/dp/006091307X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1411238673&sr=1-1&keywords=crying+of+lot+49

1984

http://www.amazon.com/1984-Signet-Classics-George-Orwell/dp/0451524934/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1411238702&sr=1-1&keywords=1984

The Hitchhiker Guide

http://www.amazon.com/Hitchhikers-Guide-Galaxy-Douglas-Adams/dp/0345391802/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1411238721&sr=1-2&keywords=hithchiker%27s+guide+to+the+galaxy

The Divine Comedy

http://www.amazon.com/Divine-Comedy-Inferno-Purgatorio-Paradiso/dp/0451208633

No Logo

http://www.amazon.com/No-Logo-Anniversary-Edition-Introduction/dp/0312429274

Brave New World

http://www.amazon.com/Brave-New-World-Aldous-Huxley/dp/0060850523

Cat's Cradle

http://www.amazon.com/Cats-Cradle-Novel-Kurt-Vonnegut/dp/038533348X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1411239309&sr=1-1&keywords=cat%27s+cradle

Stanley Donwood

http://www.amazon.com/Slowly-Downward-Collection-Miserable-Stories/dp/0954417739/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1411239324&sr=1-2&keywords=slowly+downward

http://www.amazon.com/Household-Worms-Richard-Jones/dp/1906477558/ref=pd_sim_b_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=088RY3YE1BENWJPAV5DY

oh, you sweet summer child..

here's a tip of an iceberg. it's only one example of cancer growing inside the US government.

crucial follow up reading would be public enemies. shame they made it into such a terrible movie. life gives you the greatest script and hollywood fucking changes it.

the rabbit hole is deep. might be better off not jumping in, but the truth is out there if you care enough to find it.

This book any good? I've got the sample sitting on my kindle but haven't actually cracked it open.

I was personally a fan of Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stool, as well.

Dude ask google not reddit. But a lot of it is America's fault (I know, how original), because we buy most of their drugs and sell them most of their guns.

This seems like a good book on the subject, reading is always the best option.

http://www.amazon.com/El-Narco-Mexicos-Criminal-Insurgency/dp/1608194019/ref=pd_sim_b_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=0A0HGXZ779GP1XD5TS7X

Great Book if you're interested -
https://www.amazon.com/Outlaws-Inc-Market-Dangerous-Smugglers/dp/1608195309

Check out Outlaws Inc.
focuses on ex-soviet IL-76 crews in Africa, their day-to-day, the shady carriers they work for, and the economic symbiosis of legit ngo aid runs and illicit embargo-busting. Fun read, much more exciting than this vice bit..

So did I... Using the Red Box to get free calls and then paperclip trick when the red box didn't work anymore.

If you haven't done so already... read this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Exploding-Phone-Untold-Teenagers-Outlaws-ebook/dp/B009SAV5W0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1485567686&sr=8-1&keywords=phreaking

It's fantastic.

He's a pretty neat guy. He first became fairly well known for discovering one of the earliest cyberspying cases:

> A 75-cent discrepancy in billing for computer time led Stoll, an astrophysicist working as a systems manager at a California laboratory, on a quest that reads with the tension and excitement of a fictional thriller. Painstakingly he tracked down a hacker who was attempting to access American computer networks, in particular those involved with national security, and actually reached into an estimated 30 of the 450 systems he attacked. Initially Stroll waged a lone battle, his employers begrudging him the time spent on his search and several government agencies refused to cooperate. But his diligence paid off and in due course it was learned that the hacker, 25-year-old Markus Hess of Hanover, Germany, was involved with a spy ring. Eight members were arrested by the West German authorities but all but one were eventually released.

His book on the incident is an outstanding read.

After reading the book "Adnan’s Story" by Rabia Chaudhry, I'm pretty convinced that he's not guilty.

fan of Bruce Robinson version. great anti-establishment version

https://www.amazon.co.uk/They-All-Love-Jack-Busting/dp/006229637X

read a book called 'they all love Jack'

https://www.amazon.co.uk/They-All-Love-Jack-Busting/dp/006229637X

I've read most of the ripper books over the years...and this one is different...worth reading for the whole picture it paints of Victorian London alone but I also think it's nailed it as regards the identity of Jack and answers pretty much all of the questions surrounding the case.

A Century of Spies, by Jeffrey Richelson might be worth checking out. In general, Richelson has done a fair amount of "history of American Intelligence" types of books.

http://www.amazon.com/Century-Spies-Intelligence-Twentieth/dp/019511390X/ref=la_B000APNPG6_1_8?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1406137379&sr=1-8

This is nothing. Wait until the story of "Jo-Lo" (I think that's his name) gets made into a movie. Over 5 billion swindled from foreign governments with the help of Goldman. He's also the guy that funded our beloved "Wolf of Wall Street" movie when Hollywood refused. Listened to one of the authors on a Rich Dad podcast and just......holy shit. Dude makes Jordan Belfort look like a kindergartner.

Here's the book:

The Billion Dollar Whale

The most encompassing book I have read to date has been A Century of Spies: Intelligence in the Twentieth Century. It includes everything from Russia Secretly Intelligence such as CHEKA, the Gestapo, the origins of MI6, MI5 and the BSS, and the rise of the CIA/NSA and its global intervention.

Seen here:
http://www.amazon.ca/Century-Spies-Intelligence-Twentieth/dp/019511390X

right... just like in the 500 page book, legacy of ashes or this lovely book, the main enemy. Argghhh! I wish we had books we could refer to!

Have you read his books?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/RED-ARMY-GENERAL-Britains-Hooligan/dp/1903854458/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_0/262-9647677-9880669?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=4387T86FS3TATN1MCN3B

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Men-Black-Manchester-Football-Hooligan/dp/1903854520

Buckethead certainly aint a dickhead and hes very well connected.

The evidence is pretty convincing that the Russian government was behind the bombings.

https://www.amazon.com/Moscow-Bombings-September-1999-Examinations/dp/3838203887

This is a good place to start

https://www.amazon.com/How-Disappear-Completely-Never-Found/dp/087947257X

It's an old book, but I assume there may be some good tips

Nope but I've read that one too. This is by Bruce Robinson and while so far he hasn't suggested who it is (He still has half the book!), he's pretty funny about shitting on other people's theories.

If anyone wants to read more about AN-12/ IL-76s like this. Pick up Outlaws Inc. Very good read.

Anyone remotely interested in this topic must read Exploding the Phone, by Phil Lapsley - a truly monumental effort to document this era in history.

Very funny that with all the Obama Admin problems, the only thing on the front page of Reddit is a dig at Republicans. I guess Reddit.com does not want to get audited, sent to Libya, or have it's ports tapped.

The best book on Watergate is "Silent Coup"

https://www.amazon.com/How-Disappear-Completely-Never-Found/dp/087947257X

XD

You could try this book. I haven't read it, but I know a few people you enjoyed it.

The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld

If I was the wife I would be strongly against that kind of division. Cashing out cryptocurrencies for real US dollars in your pocket can be incredibly difficult or impossible. I say "real dollars" as opposed to "numbers on some shady unregulated exchange's database", where the exchange says withdrawals are currently disabled due to a software bug but we'll totally have them working again next month. Because that kind of thing has happened multiple times in the past, with exchanges who ended up either running away with all their customers' money or losing the money in a hack and trying to cover it up. See (1) (2)

Read this guy's book, it's pretty good. He describes bitcoin exchanges as "keep[ing] your money in a sock under someone else's bed".

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I read this a while backb great book

https://www.amazon.com/Aint-Nobodys-Business-You-Consensual/dp/192976717X

Something that's not on there but which I would heartily recommend is The Cuckoo's Egg, which is 100% hard computer storytelling because it's a true story of a thing that actually happened, and the sneaky espionage / counter-espionage that a sysadmin and a hacker got in to against each other.

http://www.amazon.com/Interference-Organized-Influences-Professional-Football/dp/068808303X

People don't realize it is completely legal for the NFL to fix its matches. This book is a little old (80s I think) but still has a lot of good info in it.

Here is a video of the author explaining it

Yeah, if you read the history, it was a lot about suppressing brown people. I like this book.

It's pretty accurate.

Read that if you want to know more.

"Bias" is a tough question... it took Bob Woodward over a decade to admit that he came to The Washington Post from a high-level Naval Intelligence position, for instance.

The reviews on 1991's "Silent Coup" summarize some of the issues the book explores: http://www.amazon.com/Silent-Coup-The-Removal-President/dp/0312051565

If you want to read about this, this is a good book about the United firm.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Men-Black-Manchester-Football-Hooligan/dp/1903854520

This is a pretty good question. There are a handful of books here in Mexico but I don't know if they have been translated or if an english speaker has written a book about it.

EDIT: http://www.amazon.com/El-Narco-Mexicos-Criminal-Insurgency/dp/1608194019/ref=sr_1_14?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1413387728&sr=1-14&keywords=mexico

The concept may have been first practically demonstrated by some German hackers who found ways to link several separate international education and military webs illegally.

I read this years ago: The Cuckoo's Egg

Anyone interested in the history of the web and how it developed should read it.

I'd recommend El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency by Ioan grillo. It covers in depth all of the queries you seem to be interested in. Read this last year and it's top notch.

Here's some good beginning reading:

Red Army Firm

Telegraph article on the Men in Black

Some of the Men in Black pay a visit to Rooney's house amidst the contract/City situation

Similar event with Rio

And a couple of books on the subject, both by Tony O'Neill: Red Army General and The Men in Black.

Attack of the 50 foot blockchain by our own u/dgerard

You can find the paperback for sale here.

His blog can be found here.

David—anything you’d like to add so people can find your content?

Sounds like it could be this one: https://www.amazon.com/Outlaws-Inc-Market-Dangerous-Smugglers/dp/1608195309

Book recommendation on Jho Loo: Billion Dollar Whale https://www.amazon.com/Billion-Dollar-Whale-Fooled-Hollywood/dp/1478947993

Suggested reading for anyone who else who also agrees with this point:

"Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do" - Peter McWilliams

Well, if you're really serious, buy and read this book. If that's too much effort, then you're not really serious.

There's a really good book that covers all this and more (infidelity, suicide, etc) and how we are still limited as to freedom to choose things that affect only ourselves. It's called Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do and up until very recently you could legally find the whole text online. You probably still can if you hunt around but even still you can get it on Amazon cheap ($9.99).

Not sure if you are into security tech but some of my favorites....

• The Cucco's Egg by Cliff Stoll
  
• Kingpin by Kevin Poulsen
  
• Ghost in the Wires by Kevin Mitnick
  
• Countdown to Zero Day by Kim Zetter
  
• Zero Day by Mark Russinovich
  
  
  Also thought I'd include some that I have purchased but not finished yet in case you'd be interested.
  
  
• Where the Wizards Stay up Late by Katie Hafner
  
• Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy
  
• Fatal System Error: The Hunt for the New Crime Lords Who Are Bringing Down the Internet by Joseph Menn

Oh hells yeah. Like how [Russians] (http://www.amazon.com/Darkness-Dawn-Russian-Criminal-State/dp/0300105916/) chose to dissolve their pensions in the 1990s, when not choosing to dissolve physically in collapsing infrastructure. Or like how they chose to [replace police] (http://www.amazon.com/Violent-Entrepreneurs-Making-Russian-Capitalism/dp/0801487781/) with violent, for-profit thugs.

The book about it has been selling

https://www.amazon.com/Billion-Dollar-Whale-Fooled-Hollywood/dp/1478947993

Assumed most people will wait till there is a movie based on the book...

Outlaws, Inc

http://www.amazon.com/How-Disappear-Completely-Never-Found/dp/087947257X

The non-fiction version of The Gangs of New York that the movie is based on.

Do you mean other than Gangs of New York?

Seems relevant

Ain't nobody's business if you do.

The other replies have shown you what it is used for in astronomy. If you want a fascinating real-world example of what else it is used for, check out Clifford Stoll's book The Cuckoo's Egg:

>Cliff Stoll was an astronomer turned systems manager at Lawrence Berkeley Lab when a 75-cent accounting error alerted him to the presence of an unauthorized user on his system. The hacker's code name was "Hunter"—a mysterious invader who managed to break into U.S. computer systems and steal sensitive military and security information. Stoll began a one-man hunt of his own: spying on the spy. It was a dangerous game of deception, broken codes, satellites, and missile bases—a one-man sting operation that finally gained the attention of the CIA . . . and ultimately trapped an international spy ring fueled by cash, cocaine, and the KGB.

PBS did a really cheesy (but good) documentary of his book if you want a taste before you dive all the way in, but the book is better.

How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found by Doug Richmond. I got it for a buck at Half Price Books mostly because of the cover.

On a different note than everyone else here I recommend The Fix Is In by Brian Tuohy which covers how show business influences various sporting leagues. And also Interference by Dan E. Moldea which covers how gambling and organized crime influences the NFL.

El Narco

Narcoleaks

Narcoland

and

Drug War Mexico

There is also a good book about Juarez and the cartels also by Anabel Hernández, Los señores del narco, but I do not know if it is in Spanish.

...as long as people are willing to spend $23 on Rabia's book - http://www.amazon.com/Adnans-Story-Murder-Justice-Captivated/dp/1250087104 - it's worth all the insanity. It's just business.

A lot of fiction in this thread, I'd like to mention some non-fiction:

1. The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGB by Milton Bearden and James Risen - Excellent story of the CIA and KGB from early 80s through the fall of the Soviet Union. Really covers in depth US operations inside the Soviet Union, important defections by senior Soviet military and intelligence personnel, and significant counterintelligence failures (Aldrich Ames). The best part is this is not a history review written by some academic third party, it was written by the guy who actually worked Moscow Station for the CIA during the period and knew Ames and handled many key defections. Moreover it contains a lot of detail on actual tradecraft methods.
   
   
2. The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy by David Hoffman. This book really goes in depth on the Soviet chemical, biological, and radiological program, as well as the effort towards disarmament. What the Soviets dreamed up was actually quite frightening and they did much of it despite treat obligations. This book is interesting for two reasons: 1) The Soviets (And as conveyed by Phillip and Elizabeth in the Americans) really believed Reagan was a nut whom wanted to leave them on the ash heap of history, which drove their paranoia and pursuit of WMD; 2) It shows behind the scenes that Reagan actually wanted to reduce nuclear weapons and loathed the idea of nuclear war. A significant portion of the book focuses on the impact of key Soviet defectors that provided the US insight in to the Soviet WMD program.
   
   
3. Farewell: The Greatest Spy Story of the Twentieth Century - Sergei Kostin, Eric Raynaud. Farewell was the code name for Vladimir Vetrov, a Soviet KGB Line X (Just like Oleg), whom was responsible for conducting S&T collection operations against the US. He became an agent for the French, and turned over heaps of information on Soviet S&T intelligence objectives and operations worldwide. His intelligence was passed on to the UK and US, and was important to Reagan in negotiations with the Soviet Union. His betrayal caused 100+ Soviet S&T intelligence officers to be expelled from US, the UK, and France. Excellent discussion on the motivation of an agent and stresses at maintaining two lives (Vetrov, in addition to working for the French, was also cheating on his wife... talk about stressful). Also a lot of interesting information on tradecraft such as signals for meetings and dead drops.

Ain't Nobody's Business if You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in a Free Society by Peter McWilliams
An Underground Education : The Unauthorized and Outrageous Supplement to Everything You Thought You Knew About Art, Sex, Business, Crime, Science, Medicine, and Other Fields of Human by Richard Zacks

A good book Herbert Asbury's classic "Gangs of New York", which comes with a dust jacket blurb from no less than Jorge Luis Borges:

“A univeral history of infamy, the history of the gangs of New York contains all the confusion and cruelty of the barbarian cosmologies.”
—Jorge Luis Borges

http://www.amazon.com/The-Gangs-New-York-Underworld/dp/0307388980/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1333908321&sr=1-1

I literally wrote a book on the subject, which appears to be the only critical book. You can read the first few chapters on Amazon with "Look inside!" - chapter 1 answers "wtf is a bitcoin". (And chapters 2 and 3 tell you why Bitcoin and answers to a lot of the claims you'll see in this thread.)

Because despite the privacy issues of previous bills, cyberattacks are an ongoing problem, especially for U.S. companies, and solutions of some sort are needed.

Right now it's not even clear if a company like Google could legally cooperate with a company like Microsoft on detecting and responding to cyberattacks on their networks, and these problems are not theoretical.

For all that you guys are worried about NSA, don't forget that there are other nations with perfectly good foreign intelligence agencies, such as Russia and China, and these nations have been trying to break into U.S. company networks since the Internet existed.

It's hard enough to defend corporate networks when you have employees who will click on random stupid emails and when finding software vulnerabilities seems to be simply an issue of digging for long enough, without the problems introduced by preventing companies from cooperating. In the military we'd call this "defeat in detail", but you probably could see this in those fancy online multiplayer games too, where your team cooperates to gang up on one opponent at a time to bring them all down. It works with networks too, since we're all interconnected to each other, we are as vulnerable as our weakest link.

This is doubly troubling because the U.S. is almost completely dependent on cyber technologies in a way that many other nations are not, so the U.S. has much more to lose than nations like Russia and China.

The fact that previous bills have been used to try to enforce copyrights from the MPAA/RIAA and other such shenanigans has never meant that there wasn't a need to give U.S. businesses and ISPs the ability to defend themselves (since the U.S. government can't protect them by itself). If they've finally delivered a bill that focuses on that and only on that I'd probably support it; it will have been long overdue.

The whole point of this article is to get people to wander off into useless details after they lead you past the correct path right at the beginning. Read the Cuckoo's Egg. It's about a very early internet hack job by the Russians that was tracked down by a random sysadmin who wanted to figure out who was relaying shit through his server. See, even back then the Russians were making their connection through many hops. They compromised MANY servers in order to make it difficult to trace their activities back to their origin. No hacker worth a shit would only compromise one server directly from his address in Romania. It's just too stupid to even think about.