This Machine Kills Secrets

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This Machine Kills Secrets
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Author Andy Greenberg
LanguageEnglish
PublisherDutton
Publication date
2012
Publication placeUnited States
Pages370
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 which served as a launching point for the book was published by Forbes , [3] 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]

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  1. ↑ Allnutt, Luke. "Book Review: Cypherpunks | This Machine Kills Secrets". WSJ. Archived from the original on 2013-04-21. Retrieved 2023-03-04.
  2. 1 2 3 4 THIS MACHINE KILLS SECRETS | Kirkus Reviews. Archived from the original on 2018-02-05. Retrieved 2018-02-05.
  3. ↑ Greenberg, Andy. "An Interview With WikiLeaks' Julian Assange". Forbes. Retrieved 2023-03-04.
  4. 1 2 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.


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