This machine kills secrets : how WikiLeakers, cypherpunks and hacktivists aim to free the world's information / Andy Greenberg.

9780525953203 hardcover
0525953205 hardcover

New York : Dutton, c2012.

English

xiv, 370 p. ; 24 cm.

HV6773 .G74 2012

364.16/8

The machine that kills secrets is a powerful cryptographic code that hides the identities of leakers and hacktivists as they spill the private files of government agencies and corporations bringing us into a new age of whistle blowing. With unrivaled access to figures like Julian Assange, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and Jacob Applebaum, investigative journalist Andy Greenberg unveils the group that brought the world WikiLeaks, OpenLeaks, and BalkanLeaks.This powerful 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. Never have the seemingly powerless had so much power to disembowel big corporations and big government.--Publisher information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-356) and index.

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