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

Paperback. Pub Date :2013-09-25 Pages: 400 Language: English Publisher: Plume Books Who Are The CypherpunksThis 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 s...