Author | Andy Greenberg |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Publisher | Dutton |
Publication date | 2012 |
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]