Cypherpunks

2016-10 Computers

Author : Julian Assange
Release : 2016-10
Genre : Computers
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Book Rating : 083/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Cypherpunks written by Julian Assange. This book was released on 2016-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Internet has led to revolutions across the world but a crackdown is now in full swing. As whole societies move online, mass surveillance programs are being deployed globally. Our civilization has reached a crossroads. In one direction lies a future promoting "privacy for the weak and transparency for the powerful"; in the other is an internet that transfers power over entire populations to an unaccountable complex of spy agencies and their trans-national corporate allies. Cypherpunks are activists who advocate the mass use of strong cryptography as a way protecting our basic freedoms against this onslaught. Julian Assange, the editor-in-chief of an visionary behind Wikileaks, has been a leading voice in the cypherpunk movement since the 1990s. Now, in a timely and important new book, Assange brings together a group of rebel thinkers and activists from the front line of the battle for cyberspace to discuss whether the internet will emancipate or enslave all of us.--

Cypherpunk Ethics

2022-04-24 Philosophy

Author : Patrick D. Anderson
Release : 2022-04-24
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 518/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Cypherpunk Ethics written by Patrick D. Anderson. This book was released on 2022-04-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cypherpunk Ethics explores the moral worldview of the cypherpunks, a movement that advocates the use of strong digital cryptography—or crypto, for short—to defend individual privacy and promote institutional transparency in the digital age. Focusing on the writings of Timothy May and Julian Assange, two of the most prolific and influential cypherpunks, the book examines two competing paradigms of cypherpunk philosophy—crypto anarchy and crypto justice—and examines the implications of cypherpunk ethics for a range of contemporary moral issues, including surveillance, privacy, whistleblowing, cryptocurrencies, journalism, democracy, censorship, intellectual property, and power. Rooted in theory but with very real applications, this volume will appeal not only to students and scholars of digital media, communication, journalism, philosophy, political science, critical data studies, sociology, and the history of technology but also to technologists and activists around the world.

The Cypherpunk Revolutionary

2015-09-30 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Robert Manne
Release : 2015-09-30
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 557/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Cypherpunk Revolutionary written by Robert Manne. This book was released on 2015-09-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'There are few original ideas in politics. In the creation of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange was responsible for one.' This essay reveals the making of Julian Assange - both his ideas and his world-changing actions. Robert Manne explores Assange's unruly childhood and then his involvement with the revolutionary cypherpunk underground, all the way through to the creation of WikiLeaks. Pulling together the threads of his development, Manne shows how Assange became one of the most influential Australians of our time.

Digital Cash

2020-10-13 Business & Economics

Author : Finn Brunton
Release : 2020-10-13
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 162/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Digital Cash written by Finn Brunton. This book was released on 2020-10-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating untold story of digital cash and its creators—from experiments in the 1970s to the mania over Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies Bitcoin may appear to be a revolutionary form of digital cash without precedent or prehistory. In fact, it is only the best-known recent experiment in a long line of similar efforts going back to the 1970s. But the story behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and its blockchain technology has largely been untold—until now. In Digital Cash, Finn Brunton reveals how technological utopians and political radicals created experimental money to bring about their visions of the future: to protect privacy, bring down governments, prepare for apocalypse, or launch a civilization of innovation and abundance that would make its creators immortal. Filled with marvelous characters, stories, and ideas, Digital Cash is an engaging and accessible account of the strange origins and remarkable technologies behind today's cryptocurrency explosion.

Crypto

2001-01-08 Computers

Author : Steven Levy
Release : 2001-01-08
Genre : Computers
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Book Rating : 466/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Crypto written by Steven Levy. This book was released on 2001-01-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you've ever made a secure purchase with your credit card over the Internet, then you have seen cryptography, or "crypto", in action. From Stephen Levy—the author who made "hackers" a household word—comes this account of a revolution that is already affecting every citizen in the twenty-first century. Crypto tells the inside story of how a group of "crypto rebels"—nerds and visionaries turned freedom fighters—teamed up with corporate interests to beat Big Brother and ensure our privacy on the Internet. Levy's history of one of the most controversial and important topics of the digital age reads like the best futuristic fiction.

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