This Machine Kills Secrets: How WikiLeakers, Cypherpunks, and

This Machine Kills Secrets: How WikiLeakers, Cypherpunks, and Hacktivists Aim to Free the World's Information

At last, the first full account of the cypherpunks who aim to free the worldâ€™s institutional secrets, by Forbes journalist Andy Greenberg who has traced their shadowy history from the cryptography revolution of the 1970s to Wikileaks founding hacker Julian Assange, Anonymous, and beyond.

WikiLeaks brought to light a new form of whistleblowing, using powerful cryptographic code to hide leakersâ€™ identities while they spill the private data of government agencies and corporations. But that 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 worldâ€™s institutional secrecy.

This is the story of the code and the charactersâ€”idealists, anarchists, extremistsâ€”who are transforming the next generationâ€™s notion of what activism can be.

With unrivaled access to such major players as Julian Assange, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and WikiLeaksâ€™ shadowy engineer known as the Architect, never before interviewed, reporter Andy Greenberg unveils the world of politically-motivated hackersâ€”who they are and how they operate.
Country USA
Manufacturer Dutton
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2012-09-13
EANs 9780525953203

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Dutton
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2012-09-13
EANs	9780525953203

This Machine Kills Secrets: How WikiLeakers, Cypherpunks, and Hacktivists Aim to Free the World's Information

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