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This Machine Kills Secrets Julian Assange, the Cypherpunks, and Their Fight to Empower Whistleblowers

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ISBN-10: 0142180491

ISBN-13: 9780142180495

Edition: N/A

Authors: Andy Greenberg

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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 a penetrating look at the facts presented in 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…    
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Book details

List price: $17.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/25/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.30" wide x 8.00" long x 0.86" tall
Weight: 0.726

Andy Greenberg has covered cyber security and privacy for Forbes since 2007. Based in New York, Greenberg's reporting has taken him from an autonomous car race in the California desert to Beijing, where he first cut his teeth as a freelance journalist in 2004. Most recently, Greenberg's travels have taken him to Iceland and London, where he produced the world's first cover story on WikiLeaks' Julian Assange.