17 Top history books like Permanent Record by Edward Snowden

Cover of Permanent Record by Edward Snowden

Permanent Record

By: Edward Snowden

4.30

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveill…

"The government should be afraid of the people, the people shouldn't be afraid of the government."

-Edward Snowden, Permanent Record

"This was the ultimate leap of faith, in a way: I could hardly trust anyone, so I had to trust everyone."

-Edward Snowden, Permanent Record

"This was the ultimate leap of faith, in a way: I could hardly trust anyone, so I had to trust everyone."

-Edward Snowden, Permanent Record

"A little bit of math can accomplish what all the guns and barbed wire can't: a little bit of math can keep a secret."

-Edward Snowden, Permanent Record

If you liked the history plot in Permanent Record by Edward Snowden , here is a list of 17 books like this:

Cover of The Art of Invisibility: The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data by Kevin D. Mitnick, Robert Vamosi

1. The Art of Invisibility: The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data

By: Kevin D. Mitnick , Robert Vamosi

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Kevin Mitnick, the world's most famous hacker, teaches you easy cloaking and counter-measures for c… read more

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  • audiobook
  • technology
  • nonfiction
  • science
"In the midst of this culture of openness and sharing, we need to think carefully about the information we're volunteering to the world. Sometimes the world is listening."

-Kevin D. Mitnick, The Art of Invisibility: The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data

Cover of The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security by Kevin D. Mitnick, William L. Simon, Steve Wozniak, William   L.    Simon

2. The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security

By: Kevin D. Mitnick , William L. Simon , Steve Wozniak , William L. Simon

3.76

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

The world's most infamous hacker offers an insider's view of the low-tech threats to high-tech secu… read more

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  • audiobook
  • technology
  • nonfiction
  • science
"Beware of geeks bearing gifts"

-Kevin D. Mitnick, The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security

"Il fattore umano è l'anello più debole della sicurezza"

-Kevin D. Mitnick, The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security

Cover of Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon by Kim Zetter

3. Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon

By: Kim Zetter

4.17

Format: 406 pages, Hardcover

In January 2010, inspectors with the International Atomic Energy Agency noticed that centrifuges at… read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • technology
"The nations, of course, that are most at risk of a destructive digital attack are the ones with the greatest connectivity. Marcus Ranum, one of the early innovators of the computer firewall, called S…"

-Kim Zetter, Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon

Cover of When Google Met Wikileaks by Julian Assange

4. When Google Met Wikileaks

By: Julian Assange

3.88

Format: 223 pages, Paperback

When Google Met WikiLeaks presents the story of Assange and Schmidt's encounter. Both fascinating a… read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • technology
Cover of No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State by Glenn Greenwald

5. No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State

By: Glenn Greenwald

3.79

Format: None pages, Hardcover

No Place to Hide is a groundbreaking look at the NSA surveillance scandal, from the reporter who br… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • technology
Cover of Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker by Kevin D. Mitnick, William L. Simon, Steve Wozniak

6. Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker

By: Kevin D. Mitnick , William L. Simon , Steve Wozniak

4.12

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Kevin Mitnick was the most elusive computer break-in artist in history. He accessed computers and n… read more

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  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • technology
Cover of Julian Assange - The Unauthorised Autobiography by Julian Assange

7. Julian Assange - The Unauthorised Autobiography

By: Julian Assange

2.62

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In December 2010, Julian Assange signed a contract with Canongate Books to write a book - part memo… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • technology

8. Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software

By: Sam Williams

3.86

Format: None pages, Paperback

Free as in Freedominterweaves biographical snapshots of GNU project founder Richard Stallman with t… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • technology

9. The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage

By: Clifford Stoll

4.15

Format: 200 pages,

read more

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Cover of American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road by Nick Bilton

10. American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road

By: Nick Bilton

4.40

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

The unbelievable true story of the man who built a billion-dollar online drug empire from his bedro… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • technology
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"It was time to bring in the people with the calculators."

-Nick Bilton, American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road

"This is one of those rare government buildings in which someone who uses a calculator for a living can wield more power than a person who carries a gun."

-Nick Bilton, American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road

Cover of Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson

11. Elon Musk

By: Walter Isaacson

4.40

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate… read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • technology
"[Musk] concluded that Trump as president was no different than he was as a candidate. The buffoonery was not just an act. "Trump might be one of the world’s best bullshitters ever," he says. "Like my…"

-Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk

Cover of Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris   Miller

12. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

By: Chris Miller

4.44

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • technology
"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"

-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

Cover of Permanent Record by Edward Snowden

13. Permanent Record

By: Edward Snowden

4.30

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveill… read more

Similar categories in Edward Snowden's Permanent Record book and Edward Snowden's Permanent Record

  • audiobook
  • science
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • technology
"The government should be afraid of the people, the people shouldn't be afraid of the government."

-Edward Snowden, Permanent Record

"This was the ultimate leap of faith, in a way: I could hardly trust anyone, so I had to trust everyone."

-Edward Snowden, Permanent Record

"A little bit of math can accomplish what all the guns and barbed wire can't: a little bit of math can keep a secret."

-Edward Snowden, Permanent Record

"The reason you're reading this book is that I did a dangerous thing for a man in my position: I decided to tell the truth."

-Edward Snowden, Permanent Record

Cover of Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers by Andy Greenberg

14. Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers

By: Andy Greenberg

4.36

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

A chilling, globe-spanning detective story, tracking an elite group of Russian hackers and the futu… read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • technology
Cover of Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency by Andy Greenberg

15. Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency

By: Andy Greenberg

4.50

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

Over the last decade, a single innovation has massively fueled digital black markets: cryptocurrenc… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • technology
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of README.txt by Chelsea Manning

16. README.txt

By: Chelsea Manning

4.23

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, revealing memoir from one of the most important activists of our time. While workin… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"With enough grief, adrenaline, and fear we can all become amoral- even malevolent."

-Chelsea Manning, README.txt

Cover of Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World by Joseph Menn

17. Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World

By: Joseph Menn

3.75

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The shocking untold story of the elite secret society of hackers fighting to protect our privacy, o… read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • technology
"Security is about how you configure power, and who has access to what. That is political,"

-Joseph Menn, Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World

"If the combination of mindless, profit-seeking algorithms, dedicated geopolitical adversaries, and corrupt US opportunists over the past few years has taught us anything, it is that serious applied t…"

-Joseph Menn, Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World

Cover of Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State by Barton Gellman

18. Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State

By: Barton Gellman

4.06

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

“Engrossing. . . . Gellman [is] a thorough, exacting reporter . . . a marvelous narrator for this p… read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • technology
Cover of Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America by Christopher Wylie

19. Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America

By: Christopher Wylie

4.36

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For the first time, the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower tells the inside story of the data mining… read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • technology
"We can already see how algorithms competing to maximize our attention have the capacity to not only transform cultures but redefine the experience of existence. Algorithmically reinforced “engagement"

-Christopher Wylie, Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America

"Soon we were sharing personal information without the slightest hesitation. This was encouraged, in part, by a new vocabular. What were in effect privately owned surveillance networks became “communi…"

-Christopher Wylie, Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America

"Soon we were sharing personal information without the slightest hesitation. This was encouraged, in part, by a new vocabulary. What were in effect privately owned surveillance networks became “commun…"

-Christopher Wylie, Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America

"If we want to understand why these technology companies behave this way we should listen to the words of those who built them. Peter Thiel, the venture capitalist behind Facebook, Palantir, and Paypa…"

-Christopher Wylie, Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America

Cover of Targeted: The Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower s Inside Story of How Big Data, Trump, and Facebook Broke Democracy and How It Can Happen Again by Brittany Kaiser

20. Targeted: The Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower s Inside Story of How Big Data, Trump, and Facebook Broke Democracy and How It Can Happen Again

By: Brittany Kaiser

3.58

Format: 400 pages, MP3 CD

MP3 CD Format In this explosive memoir, a political consultant and technology whistleblower reveals… read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • technology
Cover of The Trial of Julian Assange: A Story of Persecution by Nils Melzer

21. The Trial of Julian Assange: A Story of Persecution

By: Nils Melzer

4.55

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In July 2010, Wikileaks published Cablegate, one of the biggest leaks in the history of the US mili… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

17 Top audiobook books like Permanent Record by Edward Snowden

Transform Your Habits

The Art of Invisibility: The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data

Kevin D. Mitnick , Robert Vamosi

3.98

Transform Your Habits

The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security

Kevin D. Mitnick , William L. Simon , Steve Wozniak , William L. Simon

3.76

Transform Your Habits

Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon

Kim Zetter

4.17

Transform Your Habits

When Google Met Wikileaks

Julian Assange

3.88

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12 must-read audiobook books like The Trial of Julian Assange: A Story of Persecution by Nils Melzer

Transform Your Habits

More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite

Sebastian Mallaby

4.10

Transform Your Habits

When Google Met Wikileaks

Julian Assange

3.88

Transform Your Habits

Permanent Record

Edward Snowden

4.30

Transform Your Habits

The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War

Craig Whitlock

4.26

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