Click Here to Kill Everybody
By Bruce Schneier,
WW Norton, 288pp, £20/$28
Oh no! Another book with a terrifying, it’s-the-end-of-the-world title. They’re in vogue at the moment. Sadly, for us mere mortals, Click Here to Kill Everybody is by Bruce Schneier, who is one of the world’s top cyber-security experts, and not someone given to exaggeration.
Click Here’s central point is that everything is turning into a computer. For reasons I cannot fathom, society is presently engaged in a craze of connecting everything to everything else. Most of us think of the internet as something you access on your phone or PC – but your pacemaker, home heating system, baby monitor, car and fridge are all going online too.
