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

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ISBN-10: 0525953205

ISBN-13: 9780525953203

Edition: 2012

Authors: Andy Greenberg

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The barbarians aren't at the gates. They're inside. This is the first full account of the cypherpunks who sim to free the world's information, from theForbesreporter whose work has traced their history and future.What is the machine that kills secrets?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…    
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Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/13/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

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.