Salon.com > Adam Morris http://www.salon.com Fri, 03 May 2013 21:58:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Julian Assange: The Internet threatens civilization http://www.salon.com/2013/04/30/tk_5_partner_15/ http://www.salon.com/2013/04/30/tk_5_partner_15/#comments Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:48:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13285736 Los
Angeles Review of Books WIKILEAKS FOUNDER JULIAN ASSANGE’S newest book Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet is intended as an urgent warning, but it seems to have fallen on deaf ears. Despite boasting publicity blurbs from a curious medley of public intellectuals — Slavoj Žižek, Naomi Wolf, and Oliver Stone among them — Cypherpunks may just as well have sunk to the bottom of the sea. Although Assange is one of the most vital and polemical activists alive, nobody’s talking about Cypherpunks, and nobody seems to have read it. This is a pity, since the book rings a justifiably strident alarm bell over the erosion of individual privacy rights by an increasingly powerful global surveillance industry.

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