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THIS MACHINE KILLS SECRETS
By: Andy Greenberg
How WikiLeakers, Cypherpunks, and Hacktivists Aim to Free the World's Information
Dutton
September 2012
On Sale: September 13, 2012
384 pages
ISBN: 0525953205
EAN: 9780525953203
Kindle: B007HUD7LU
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At last, the first full account of the cypherpunks who aim to free the worldβs institutional secrets, by Forbes journalist Andy Greenberg who has traced their shadow history from the cryptography revolution of the 1970s to Wikileaks founding hacker Julian Assange, Anonymous, and beyond.
The machine that kills secrets is a powerful cryptographic code that hides the identities of leakers and hacktivists as they spill the private files of government agencies and corporations bringing us into a new age of whistle blowing. With unrivaled access to figures like Julian Assange, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and Jacob Applebaum investigative journalist Andy Greenberg unveils the group that brought the world WikiLeaks, OpenLeaks, and BalkanLeaks.
This powerful technology has been evolving for decades in the hands of hackers and radical activists, from the libertarian enclaves of Northern California to Berlin to the Balkans. And the secret-killing machine continues to evolve beyond WikiLeaks, as a movement of hacktivists aims to obliterate the worldβs institutional secrecy. Never have the seemingly powerless had so much power to disembowel big corporations and big government
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