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This Machine Kills Secrets : Julian Assange, the Cypherpunks, and Their Fight to Empower Whistleblowers by Assange, Julian;Greenberg, Andy is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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The whistleblowers -- The cryptographers -- The cypherpunks -- The onion routers -- The plumbers -- The globalizers -- The engineers.;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 noti

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Assange, Julian;Greenberg, Andy
Publisher
Penguin Group;A Plume Book
Published
2012
Language
EN
ISBN
9781101593585
Category
history
Subjects
True Crime, Computer Science, Social Science
Rating
4.02 / 5 (35 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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