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The case involves the disappearance of Vanger’s favorite niece, Harriet, some forty years prior.Īt a family gathering on their private island, Harriet disappeared without a trace. The story revolves around a disgraced journalist, Mikael Blomkvist, who agrees to take a research case from a very old family patriarch, Henrik Vanger. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a ripping-good detective story set in the vicinity of Stockholm, Sweden, during a time when the only way to connect to the Internet from your home was with inexpensive modem lines or expensive ADSL lines.

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You probably have seen the popular movie versions, but this is one case where you definitely need to check out the book. Not only is it a fantastic story, but Larsson also gets the technical details right. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo also falls into this latter category. Deaver gets the technical details right by describing real-world and fictional tools that the two main hackers use against each other. A good example of this kind of storytelling is The Blue Nowhere by Jeffery Deaver, which I reviewed for a previous Cybersecurity Canon post. In the other category, the author has spent some time trying to understand hacking culture and to describe exactly how the hacker did what he or she did. I loved the story, but Harry Potter might as well have been the main character because the hacking accomplished is magically done. A good example of this kind of hacker storytelling is The Zenith Angle by Bruce Sterling. I call this the “Harry Potter School of Hacking”: the hackers do a lot of hand-waving and say a lot of magic words like “Sending spike now!” or “Breaking encryption, this will just take a couple of seconds,” but you never really see how they accomplish those tasks. In one category, the author does not really understand hacking at all and does not even attempt to describe how anything is done. What I discovered was that you could categorize these hacker books into two broad categories. I started to seek them out to see if any of them were any good. When I read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo for the first time a few years ago, I got the idea that there must be a lot of books published involving hackers and how they hack. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2005) by Stieg Larsson

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I love a good argument, so feel free to let me know what you think. I presented on this topic at RSA Conference 2014 and will also be discussing it at Ignite 2014.

For the past decade, I have had this notion that there must be a Cybersecurity Canon: a list of must-read books where the content is timeless, genuinely represents an aspect of the community that is true and precise and that, if not read, leaves a hole in a cybersecurity professional’s education.