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| Author | Andy Greenberg |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | Dutton |
Publication date | 2012 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Pages | 370 |
| ISBN | 978-0-7535-4051-0 |
This Machine Kills Secrets is a 2012 book by Andy Greenberg[1] about "how WikiLeakers, cypherpunks, and hacktivists aim to free the world's information."[2] The book looks at "a revolutionary protest movement bent not on stealing information, but on building a tool that inexorably coaxes it out, a technology that slips inside of institutions and levels their defenses like a Trojan horse of cryptographic software and silicon."[2] The interview with Julian Assange[3] which served as a launching point for the book was published by Forbes, and was read nearly a million times.[2]
The book looks at the history of "politically motivated information leaks ... the lives and work of numerous cryptographers, hackers and whistleblowers",[2] including WikiLeaks and the people involved.[4] It talks about WikiLeaks being modeled on Nicolas Bourbaki, and how it could be infiltrated by informers, harassed or spied on.[4]
- ^ Allnutt, Luke. "Book Review: Cypherpunks | This Machine Kills Secrets". WSJ. Archived from the original on 2013-04-21. Retrieved 2023-03-04.
- ^ a b c d THIS MACHINE KILLS SECRETS | Kirkus Reviews. Archived from the original on 2018-02-05. Retrieved 2018-02-05.
- ^ Greenberg, Andy. "An Interview With WikiLeaks' Julian Assange". Forbes. Retrieved 2023-03-04.
- ^ a b Morozov, Evgeny (2012-10-12). "And the Firewalls Came Tumbling Down". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 2023-02-23. Retrieved 2023-03-04.