This machine kills secrets
by Andy Greenberg · first published 2012
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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
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…get featured in the media and why others don't. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust_Me,_I%27m_Lying Ghost In The Wires - Kevin Mitnick. http://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Wires-Adventures-Worlds-Wanted/d... This Machine Kills Secrets - Andy Greenberg. History of the cypherpunk movement, from the early days through Wikileaks and the Bradley Manning and Julian Assange sagas. Lots of great stuff here, definitely recommended for anyone…
on “Ask HN: Best books you read in 2012” ↗This Machine Kills Secrets - Andy Greenberg - http://www.thismachinekillssecrets.com/ Cypherpunks - Julian Assange with Jacob Appelbaum, Andy Müller-Maguhn and Jérémie Zimmermann - http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/cypherpunks/
on “Ask HN: Best books you read in 2012” ↗…titles. There is only one or two chapters in C&C that are relevant and they add very little to the debate other than providing some "ripped from the headlines" context. The reviewer should have gone with "This Machine Kills Secrets."
on “Are hackers heroes?” ↗There is a long history of this line of thinking among cypherpunks in the 1990s. If anyone is interested in the topic I highly recommend reading: This Machine Kills Secrets http://www.amazon.com/This-Machine-Kills-Secrets-WikiLeakers... It provides a great historical context which Wikileaks fits into from a look at the old usenet groups where hackers were building early…
on “Julian Assange on Living in a Surveillance Society” ↗After reading "This Machine Kills Secrets" [1] I have to agree with the sentiment in this blog post (although maybe not the tone): https://eeqj.com/20110113/wikileaks/ Assange should have followed the philosophy of the cypherpunk mailing list…
on “How the Wikileaks founder alienated his allies” ↗…wrote a book on the history of cypherpunks (including the mailing list) which Dread Pirate Roberts was most likely a part of, or the very least inspired by it's members in some way: http://www.amazon.com/This-Machine-Kills-Secrets-WikiLeakers... Having interviewed Timothy May, Cryptome founder and Phil Zimmermann is probably how he earned enough reputation to have this interview set up.
on “Meet the Dread Pirate Roberts, the man behind Silk Road” ↗