This Machine Kills Secrets
At last, the first full account of the cypherpunks who aim to free the world’s institutional secrets, by Forbes journalist Andy Greenberg who has traced their shadowy history from the cryptography revolution of the 1970s to Wikileaks founding hacker Julian Assange, Anonymous, and beyond. 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. This is the story of the code and the characters—idealists, anarchists, extremists—who are transforming the next generation’s notion of what activism can be. With unrivaled access to such major players as Julian Assange, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and WikiLeaks’ shadowy engineer known as the Architect, never before interviewed, reporter Andy Greenberg unveils the world of politically-motivated hackers—who they are and how they operate.
400 pages, 10 editions
English edition · First published 2012 by Penguin US · ISBN 9781101593585
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Editions
10 editions
English
- This Machine Kills Secrets · Penguin US · 2012 · ISBN 9781101593585 This page
- This Machine Kills Secrets: How Wikileakers, Cypherpunks, and Hacktivists Aim to Free the World's Information · Tantor and Blackstone Publishing · 2021 · ISBN 9798200073634
- This Machine Kills Secrets: How Wikileakers, Cypherpunks, and Hacktivists Aim to Free the World's Information · Tantor and Blackstone Publishing · 2021 · ISBN 9798200073641
- This Machine Kills Secrets · Perfection Learning Corporation · 2019 · ISBN 9781663611840
- This Machine Kills Secrets: Julian Assange, the Cypherpunks, and Their Fight to Empower Whistleblowers · Plume book · 2013 · ISBN 9780142180495
- This Machine Kills Secrets: How WikiLeakers , Cypherpunks and Hacktivists Aim to Free the World's Information · Virgin · 2012 · ISBN 9780753540510
- This Machine Kills Secrets: How WikiLeakers , Cypherpunks and Hacktivists Aim to Free the World's Information · Virgin Digital · 2012 · ISBN 9780753548011
- This Machine Kills Secrets: How Wikileakers, Cypherpunks, and Hacktivists Aim to Free the World's Information · Tantor Audio · 2012 · ISBN 9781452659909
- This Machine Kills Secrets: How Wikileakers, Cypherpunks, and Hacktivists Aim to Free the World's Information · Tantor Audio · 2012 · ISBN 9781452639901
- This Machine Kills Secrets : How WikiLeakers, Cypherpunks and Hacktivists Aim to Free the World's Information / Andy Greenberg. [electronic Resource] · Dutton · ISBN 9781452609904
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