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

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Who Are The Cypherpunks?
 
This is the unauthorized telling of the revolutionary cryptography story at the back of 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 type of whistleblowing, the usage of powerful cryptographic code to hide leakers’ identities whilst they spill the private data of government agencies and corporations. But that technology has been evolving for decades within the hands of hackers and radical activists, from the libertarian enclaves of Northern California to Berlin to the Balkans. And the name of the game-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 shadowy history from the cryptography revolution of the 1970s to Wikileaks founding hacker Julian Assange, Anonymous, and beyond.

This is the story of the code and the characters—idealists, anarchists, extremists—who are transforming the next generation’s notion of what activism will also be.

With unrivaled get right of entry to to such major players as Julian Assange, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and WikiLeaks’ shadowy engineer referred to as the Architect, never before interviewed, Greenberg unveils the world of politically-motivated hackers—who they’re and how they operate.

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