Fatal System Error vs Malicious bots: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: White-collar Crime, Computer crimes, Hackers, True Crime
Fatal System Error
In this disquieting cyber thriller, Joseph Menn takes readers into the murky hacker underground, traveling the globe from San Francisco to Costa Rica and London to Russia. His guides are California surfer and computer…
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Malicious bots
Originally designed as neutral entities, computerized bots are increasingly being used maliciously by online criminals in mass spamming events, fraud, extortion, identity theft, and software theft. Malicious Bots: An…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Malicious bots is the quickest read — about 2 hours vs 5 for Fatal System Error.
- Fatal System Error has the widest readership — 15 ratings behind its score.
- Malicious bots reaches further in scholarship and criticism — cited 33 times.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Fatal System Error | Malicious bots | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 3.3 (3) |
| Hardcover | 3.3 (15) | — |
| Google Books | 4.0 (1) | 5.0 (1) |
Reception
| Fatal System Error | Malicious bots | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 15 | 3 |
| Editions | 8 | 5 |
| Citations | 5 | 33 |
| Want to read | — | 4 |
| Wikipedia attention | 74 | — |
| Pages | 287 | 161 |