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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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9 October 2012
After re-reading on Kindle the book is even better. Searching, cross-linking and assembling one or more of Greenberg's characters provides different narratives than his unsettling multiple disjointedness. Read Tim May next to Julian Assange, Mudge next to John Gilmore, Adrian Lamo next to Jacob Appelbaum, Daniel Domscheit-Berg next to Phil Zimmermann. With Kindle these juxtapositions, and others, your own book can be read next to Greenberg's. The book should be put on the web for many variable readings -- it is that valuable to mine, reconfigure, rewrite, argue with its characters and author.
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This is a well-researched book that doesn't settle for glib exploitation of fictional ex nihilo WikiLeaks singularity.
Andy Greenberg has invented a gallery of "characters" (me among them) from selected debris of interviews for "This Machine Kills Secrets," an exceptionally informative account of the technical and philosophical global battle for control of communication between lock-step hierarchies of authorities armed with military-grade secrecy and armored with lie-dispensing public relations and diversely distributed, far smarter and agile, anarchical dissidents intending to swarm and undermine official "full-spectrum dominance" of information.
These challengers of abusive control of information see official secrecy as destructive of democracy and unfettered, unspied-upon communication among the citizenry. Their main weapon against the Big Iron Arms of authority (military, espionage, legislation, finance) is pervasive public encryption to protect personal privacy, identity and communication -- supplemented by creative ways to work around authoritative information control and censorship.
Could the Pentagon Papers have been leaked without a photocopier? Though now seen as the most famous leak in U.S. history, and a catalyst for the end of the Vietnam war, the Pentagon Papers did not happen overnight. Far from it, it took Daniel Ellsberg close to a year of tedious nighttime photocopying and daytime pruning (Ellsberg had to remove an Top Secret markings from his documents in order to recopy them for the press at a commercial copy-shop) before he finished the eight foot stack of documents. Today a CD-burner can write fifty times Ellsberg's document haul in minutes.
That's what Bradley Manning is accused using to pull of the biggest leak since Ellsberg -- hundreds of thousands of classified documents on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and a quarter of a million state department cables, all of which eventually ended up in the hands of Wikileaks.
Ellsberg's colleagues at RAND suspected him immediately. Manning might never have been found out, had he not confessed his crime to a hacker named Adrian Lamo, who quickly turned him in.
Too much has been written about Wikileaks and, particularly, the activists and hackers who have sustained and defended it. So it's a welcome relief to come across a book like Andy Greenberg's "This Machine Kills Secrets," which goes beyond the obvious and sketches out the rich cultural and technical history that ultimately made Wikileaks possible.
Greenberg is that rare writer who can breathe life and color into a complex story about technology without embarrassing himself to the geeks.