I'm an author. It's popular today for people to set their whodunnit mysteries back in the interwar period when Golden Age mystery fiction was written, or even earlier. This is partially a callback to the greatest mystery writers of all time, who wrote stories set in that period, and a way to avoid considering the effect modern technology would have on their sleuth.
But what's missed here, in my view, is that those writers weren't trying to hide from modernity. They were just setting their stories in their own society. Further, readers nowadays are too far removed from Victorian society to notice that heroes like Sherlock Holmes were in fact introducing the audience to chemistry and forensics that was cutting-edge at the time.
So as I start my first series set in the modern day (having previously written a few standalones and a historical series) I want to avoid shying away from the effects of the most modern technology on crime. I actually come from a data science background and have a bachelor's in computer science, but I've never studied cybersecurity at any level. What are the best resources to get me up to speed on what's relevant to storytelling?
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