Publishers of the newest Dragon Tattoo novel took some borderline paranoid precautions to guard the book from hackers
Talk about life imitating art.
Swedish publisher Norstedts is set to publish The Girl in the Spider’s Web — the first Lisbeth Salander novel not written by author Stieg Larsson, who died in 2004 of a heart attack — on Thursday (the U.S. release is Sept. 1). But protecting the manuscript from hackers, who Norstedts expected would be especially drawn to a story about one of their own (Salander is a tech-savvy anti-heroine) led to some very cloak-and-dagger operations, The Wall Street Journal reports. Читать дальше...
