Cypherpunks

Freedom and the Future of the Internet

Paperback, 192 pages

English language

Published Nov. 29, 2012 by OR Books.

ISBN:
9781939293008
OCLC Number:
812780303

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3 stars (1 review)

Cypherpunks are activists who advocate the widespread use of strong cryptography (writing in code) as a route to progressive change. Julian Assange, the editor-in-chief of and visionary behind WikiLeaks, has been a leading voice in the cypherpunk movement since its inception in the 1980s.

Now, in what is sure to be a wave-making new book, Assange brings together a small group of cutting-edge thinkers and activists from the front line of the battle for cyber-space to discuss whether electronic communications will emancipate or enslave us. Among the topics addressed are: Do Facebook and Google constitute "the greatest surveillance machine that ever existed," perpetually tracking our location, our contacts and our lives? Far from being victims of that surveillance, are most of us willing collaborators? Are there legitimate forms of surveillance, for instance in relation to the "Four Horsemen of the Infopocalypse" (money laundering, drugs, terrorism and pornography)? And do we …

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A series of conversations about the internet, privacy, digital surveillance, the militarisation of cyberspace and more, from the people whose vision of digital freedoms has been under siege by both state power and corporations the world over for many years now. And it is not only specific topics on technology but also occasional philosophical forays into questions of types of freedoms and their fundamental nature.

Subjects

  • Computer hackers
  • WikiLeaks (Organization)
  • Official secrets
  • Secrecy
  • Social aspects
  • Censorship
  • Internet
  • Freedom of information
  • Political aspects
  • Political activity