![]() With unrivaled access to such major players as Julian Assange, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and WikiLeaks' shadowy engineer known as the Architect, never before interviewed, Greenberg unveils the world of politically-motivated hackers-who they are and how they operate. For those that seek transparency, it’s a riveting tale. It’s an expose of the characters who have put secrets in peril. ![]() Andy Greenberg’s book is the story of a revolution in societal transparency. Some secrets are meant to be kept some are destined to be exposed. ![]() This is the story of the code and the characters-idealists, anarchists, extremists-who are transforming the next generation's notion of what activism can be. Daniel Suarez, New York Times bestselling author of Daemon and Kill Decision. And the secret-killing machine continues to evolve beyond WikiLeaks, as a movement of hacktivists aims to obliterate the world's institutional secrecy.įorbes journalist Andy Greenberg has traced its shadowy history from the cryptography revolution of the 1970s to Wikileaks founding hacker Julian Assange, Anonymous, and beyond. The machine that kills secrets is a powerful cryptographic code that hides the identities of leakers and hacktivists as they spill the private files of. ![]() But that technology has been evolving for decades in the hands of hackers and radical activists, from the libertarian enclaves of Northern California to Berlin to the Balkans. WikiLeaks brought to light a new form of whistleblowing, using powerful cryptographic code to hide leakers' identities while they spill the private data of government agencies and corporations. This is the unauthorized telling of the revolutionary cryptography story behind the motion picture The Fifth Estate in theatres this October, and We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks, a documentary out now. ![]()
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