
This Machine Kills Secrets
How Wikileakers, Cypherpunks, and Hacktivists Aim to Free the World's Information
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Narrated by:
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Mike Chamberlain
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By:
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Andy Greenberg
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 government agencies and corporations bringing us into a new age of whistle blowing. With unrivaled access to figures like Julian Assange, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and Jacob Applebaum, investigative journalist Andy Greenberg unveils the group that brought the world WikiLeaks, OpenLeaks, and BalkanLeaks.
This powerful 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. And the secret-killing machine continues to evolve beyond WikiLeaks, as a movement of hacktivists aims to obliterate the world's institutional secrecy. Never have the seemingly powerless had so much power to disembowel big corporations and big government.
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Interesting book, bored narrator
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This book will get anyone interested in the modern world of secrets and information that can drastically influence where power is kept: the masses or the elite masters. The book covers important events in the secrets arena, from the Pentagon Papers to OpenLeaks.Powerful topic, well-researched and written, and (uniquely) not much stigma of personal bias. Mr. Greenberg makes sure to lay out the facts first before reacting to them (as evidenced by the descriptions of the feud between Assange and Domscheit-Berg).
If you have not been introduced to the topic then you will see the world with new perspectives afterwards. Both easy-to-absorb and insightful.
Highly-recommended; gripping and informative, non-fiction at its very best!
Incredible insight into the world of secrets...
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Good listen
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Well-researched, a great story
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Also, while it could be just me, there were a couple times where it fealt the author was pushing libertarian on the reader/listener a bit too hard (just a few instances, though; don't let that deter you from choosing this book).
Good writing, a little outdated by now
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