Praise for `Intercept: The Secret History of Computers and Spies': `Riveting ... Making use of excellent sources, Corera, the BBC's security correspondent, has produced a highly relevant read that addresses the key debate in intelligence gathering - the balance between privacy and security' Sunday Times `If you are looking for a clear and comprehensive guide to how communications have been intercepted, from cable-cutting in the First World War to bulk data collection exposed by Ed Snowden, this is it ... A most readable account of how computers and the internet have transformed spying' Guardian `What good timing for [ this] book ... Gordon Corera's book takes us through the labyrinth of cyber-espionage ... It concerns a psychosis of control, whereby the digitisation of spying infests every cranny of our lives' Observer `Gordon Corera, best known as the security correspondent for BBC News, somehow finds time to write authoritative, well-researched and readable books on intelligence. Here he explores the evolution of computers from what used to be called signals intelligence to their transforming role in today's intelligence world. The result is an informative, balanced and revealing survey of the field in which, I suspect, most experts will find something new' Spectator `Never mind all those cold-war thrillers set in 1970s Berlin. The true golden age of spying and surveillance - whether carried out by states or, increasingly, by companies - is now' Economist Praise for `MI6: Life and Death in the British Secret Service': `A refreshing ... compelling read' Daily Express `His analysis is shrewd, his judgement sound ... [ the book's] strength is to present stories of the secret service's successes and failures within the political and strategic context of the times' Sunday Times `The best post-1949 account of British intelligence I have read ... this is as good as it gets. And it's a good read' Spectator
