Heya all!

I just finished reading Daemon, and I highly recommend it...

http://www.amazon.com/...mp;url=search-alias%3Daps

This was probably the best high-tech thriller I have seen that really delves into some mind-blowing ideas of how the Internet could facilitate changes in society and speed up the crumbling of nation-states.

The author did lots of research and at the end of the book even gives thanks to a lot of well known entities on topics such as hacking, cryptography, government, international finance, etc.

Also more to read about it here... check out the links on the left-hand column and you'll see some (likely familiar) references / sources behind his work.

The book was actually vetted for many technical points by the folks at ethicalhacker.net...

http://www.thedaemon.com/

Looks like a cool book. I am pretty buried in the books I have now but I will remember this one and try to get around to it. You would probably like 'Cryptonomicon' by Neal Stephenson.

Woo hoo! Thanks aponic. ;)

I'll look into that one after I finish this series. I'm 1/2way through book 2 and book 3 comes out in early July I think.

It is CRAZY reading Daemon right when Diablo 3 came out, the parallels are amazing in watching gamers' behavior, language, beliefs, etc...

BTW, so far, book 2 is much more sweeping than Book 1. Daemon was essentially a very high-tech thriller/suspense/mystery where concepts, people and tools from the gaming and hacking worlds took overtook the real world. But book 2 (Freedom) is a much broader examination of very big topics from international finance to agribusiness to the military-industrial-complex to corporate personhood and lobbying to the inherent values of democracy and whether it is sustainable. So it is bigger than the story in Book 1 by far...