Many visitors of late -- and I've a new novel started. I wanted to wait this time to see if I had the full story before blasting out a message inviting you to stop by and check it out. This one is called 29 Cozy Bears and it is a near future/urban cyber story exploring the Russian hacker groups, which security and police have named the Cozy Bears. There are several of these groups, cozy bears, fancy Bears, Carbon Bears, etc. The US sysops have also labeled them APTs Advanced Persistent Threats. I got caught up in the stories about them, the targets they have focused on and the systemic nature of their lives.
I grew up inside the wrapper of the Red Scare. And maybe Russian/Soviet attitudes and desires were all as bad and threatening as they said, but in the yeas of my life I have discovered that many -- oh so many things -- have not been as advertised when I got the chance to explore them myself. But I new nothing tangible of the Russians. Nothing really of their people, their loves, their lives. And I want to. ... besides, Cozy Bears? are you kidding me? I have to check this out. --- stop by and drop a line. Explore the hacker wold with me (which do know something about).
Happy New Year.. lets rock!
glenn