Click Here to Kill Everybody

{{Short description|2018 non-fiction book by Bruce Schneier}}

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| name = Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World

| image = Click Here to Kill Everybody.jpg

| author = Bruce Schneier

| country = United States

| language = English

| genre = Technology, Security

| release_date = 2018

| publisher = W. W. Norton Company

| isbn = 978-0393608885

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Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World is a 2018 nonfiction book by Bruce Schneier that explores the risks and security implications of the proliferation of Internet of Things devices and increases in widespread automation, and lays out suggestions as to how these might be best mitigated at a societal level.{{cite web |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06033-9 |title= Governments want your smart devices to have stupid security flaws|author=Steven Aftergood |date= 28 August 2018 |website= |publisher= Nature |accessdate=17 September 2018}}{{cite web |url=https://www.schneier.com/books/click_here/ |title= Click Here to Kill Everybody (website) |author=Bruce Schneier |date= |website= |publisher= schneier.com|accessdate=17 September 2018}}

The book was praised for its lucid diagnosis of root causes of the widespread security flaws affecting IoT devices, and its "host of modest, plausible, and effective changes we can make to how we regulate [...] tech."{{cite web |url=https://boingboing.net/2018/09/04/great-if-we-dont-fuck-up.html |title= Schneier's "Click Here To Kill Everybody pervasive connected devices mean we REALLY can't afford shitty internet policy|author=Cory Doctorow |date= 4 September 2018 |website= |publisher= Boing Boing |accessdate=17 September 2018}}

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