Cyberpunks book julian assange biography

2012 book by Julian Assange

Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet is a 2012 book by Julian Assange, in discussion with Internet activists and cypherpunksJacob Appelbaum, Andy Müller-Maguhn and Jérémie Zimmermann.

Cyberpunks book julian assange biography

Its primary topic is society's relationship with information security. In the book, the authors warn that the Internet has become a tool of the police state, and that the world is inadvertently heading toward a form of totalitarianism.

They promote the use of cryptography to protect against state surveillance.^[1]

In the introduction, Assange says that the book is "not a manifesto [...] [but] a warning".^[2] He told Guardian journalist Decca Aitkenhead:

A well-defined mathematical algorithm can encrypt something quickly, but to decrypt it would take billions of years – or trillions of dollars' worth of electricity to drive the computer.

So cryptography is the essential building block of independ