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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 Hardcover / e-Book
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At last, the first full account of the cypherpunks who
aim to free the world’s 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 world’s institutional
secrecy. Never have the seemingly powerless had so much
power to disembowel big corporations and big government
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