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Author: Andy Greenberg
ISBN : B007HUD7LU
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Who Are The Cypherpunks?
This is the unauthorized telling of the revolutionary cryptography story behind the motion picture The Fifth Estate in theatres this October, and We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks, a documentary out now. WikiLeaks brought to light a new form of whistleblowing, using powerful cryptographic code to hide leakers’ 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 world’s institutional secrecy.
Forbes journalist Andy Greenberg has traced its shadowy history from the cryptography revolution of the 1970s to Wikileaks founding hacker Julian Assange, Anonymous, and beyond.
This is the story of the code and the characters—idealists, anarchists, extremists—who are transforming the next generation’s notion of what activism can be.
With unrivaled access to such major players as Julian Assange, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and WikiLeaks’ shadowy engineer known as the Architect, never before interviewed, Greenberg unveils the world of politically-motivated hackers—who they are and how they operate.
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- File Size: 1290 KB
- Print Length: 385 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0525953205
- Publisher: Plume; Reprint edition (September 13, 2012)
- Sold by: Penguin Group (USA) LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B007HUD7LU
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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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.
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