Future Crimes By Marc Goodman

In his revealing book Future Crimes, Marc Goodman shows us the threat that we, as inhabitants of this new technological world, either are facing or going to face in future years. Goodman started his cybercrime resume with the Los Angeles Police Department. After the LAPD, he spent years working for federal agencies such as the FBI and the secret service with on their computer crime units. When he began working with the computer crime units, cybercrimes were still in their infancy, now he has seen the eruption of cyber terrorism and Crime Inc. Goodman’s book shows the American public the vulnerabilities of their social media accounts and how the information obtained from them can be used against them. He also reveals how large the Dark Web really is and how it is already causing threats because of the unregulated sale of every product imaginable. Goodman structured his book so that we can see all of the parts that had to come together in the beginning to create the lucrative Dark Web and Crime Inc.
Goodman structured his book to have multiple, small subsections in each chapter, this made his readings easier to read without getting lost. By doing short passages he was able to show many different examples of cybercrime. The three main themes of his book are current …show more content…
He does a great job bringing to life every event that he talks about with facts and realistic, pragmatic viewpoint. Although he does a brilliant job discussing the threats to our security, he was more closed minded when it came to possible ways of protection from cybercrimes and new biotech weapons that could be designed to only work with a certain peoples DNA. The structure of his book with the short readings instead of long paragraphs certainly made his book easier to read while still staying interested in the