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    Kill ProcessWilliam Hertling

    Kill Process

    William Hertling · 2016

    By day, Angie, a twenty-year veteran of the tech industry, is a data analyst at Tomo, the world's largest social networking company; by night, she exploits her database access to profile domestic abusers and kill the worst of them. She can't change her own traumatic past, but she can save other women. When Tomo introduces a deceptive new product that preys on users' fears to drive up its own revenue, Angie sees Tomo for what it really is--another evil abuser. Using her coding and hacking expertise, she decides to destroy Tomo by building a new social network that is completely distributed, compartmentalized, and unstoppable. If she succeeds, it will be the end of all centralized power in the Internet. But how can an anti-social, one-armed programmer with too many dark secrets succeed when the world's largest tech company is out to crush her and a no-name government black ops agency sets a psychopath to look into her growing digital footprint?This Library Edition offers an alternative cover.

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    What Hacker News says

    1. zn44Jun 2021
      Kill Process by William Hertling

      And

      Kill Switch also by William Hertling

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    2. snitch182Sep 2019
      Yeah, upvote on that. You can not get more Programming than from Mr. Hertling.

      I Also like the hacking and raspberrypi networking on: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30658546-kill-process

      Thanks for that William!

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    3. zn44Aug 2018
      Kill Process by William Hertling
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    4. lowbloodsugarAug 2017
      Really enjoyed William Hertling's Kill Process on this very subject.

      https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30658546-kill-process

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    5. BjoernKWDec 2016
      Kill Process by William Hertling: http://www.williamhertling.com/books/#kill-process

      It's near future and the technology isn't that far-out. Most of it is either very real already or at least very believable from today's point of view. So, maybe technically it doesn't count as sci-fi but it's a really great tech thriller anyway.

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    6. headcanonDec 2016
      Besides Kill Process and Seveneves (mentioned elsewhere on this thread), I'm going through the Hyperion Cantos right now, and I can't recommend it enough. Apparently Bradley Cooper is heading up production of a series as well, so good times ahead for that IP.
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