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Cypherpunks - Freedom and the Future of the Internet (Paperback)
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Cypherpunks - Freedom and the Future of the Internet (Paperback)
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Loot Price R346
Discovery Miles 3 460
You Save R74 (18%)
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Cypherpunks are activists who advocate the widespread use of strong
cryptography (writing in code) as a route to progressive change.
Julian Assange, the editor-in-chief of and visionary behind
WikiLeaks, has been a leading voice in the cypherpunk movement
since its inception in the 1980s. Now, in what is sure to be a
wave-making new book, Assange brings together a small group of
cutting-edge thinkers and activists from the front line of the
battle for cyber-space to discuss whether electronic communications
will emancipate or enslave us. Among the topics addressed are: Do
Facebook and Google constitute the greatest surveillance machine
that ever existed,” perpetually tracking our location, our
contacts and our lives? Far from being victims of that
surveillance, are most of us willing collaborators? Are there
legitimate forms of surveillance, for instance in relation to the
Four Horsemen of the Infopocalypse” (money laundering, drugs,
terrorism and pornography)? And do we have the ability, through
conscious action and technological savvy, to resist this tide and
secure a world where freedom is something which the Internet helps
bring about? The harassment of WikiLeaks and other Internet
activists, together with attempts to introduce anti-file sharing
legislation such as SOPA and ACTA, indicate that the politics of
the Internet have reached a crossroads. In one direction lies a
future that guarantees, in the watchwords of the cypherpunks,
privacy for the weak and transparency for the powerful”; in the
other lies an Internet that allows government and large
corporations to discover ever more about internet users while
hiding their own activities. Assange and his co-discussants unpick
the complex issues surrounding this crucial choice with clarity and
engaging enthusiasm.
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