2600 Magazine archive

2600 Magazine archive

Julian Assange, Jacob Appelbaum, Andy Müller-Maguhn, Jérémie Zimmermann - Cypherpunks_ freedom and the future of the Internet(2012) --- 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 and 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 dis cuss whether the internet will emancipate or enslave all of us.

2600 Magazine archive