Joseph Menn

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Joseph Menn is an investigative technology reporter at Reuters, having previously worked for the Financial Times and Los Angeles Times. He wrote the influential 2010 bestseller Fatal System Error: The Hunt for the New Crime Lords who are Bringing Down the Internet, a real-life thriller that brought the modern face of cybercrime to a mainstream audience. It was placed on the official reading list of the U.S. Strategic Command, named one of the ten best nonfiction works of the year by Hudson Booksellers and compared by the New Yorker to the novels of Stieg Larsson. He also wrote All the Rave, the definitive inside story of Napster.

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Insight into the NSA's Weakening of Crypto Standards