Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet

Julian Assange

  • 出版商: Society for Industri
  • 出版日期: 2016-10-11
  • 售價: $800
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$760
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 196
  • 裝訂: Paperback
  • ISBN: 1944869085
  • ISBN-13: 9781944869083
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商品描述

Cypherpunks are activists who advocate the widespread use of strong cryptography (writing in code) as a route to progressive change. Julian Assange, the editor-in-chief of and visionary behind WikiLeaks, has been a leading voice in the cypherpunk movement since its inception in the 1980s.

Now, in what is sure to be a wave-making new book, Assange brings together a small group of cutting-edge thinkers and activists from the front line of the battle for cyber-space to discuss whether electronic communications will emancipate or enslave us. Among the topics addressed are: Do Facebook and Google constitute “the greatest surveillance machine that ever existed,” perpetually tracking our location, our contacts and our lives? Far from being victims of that surveillance, are most of us willing collaborators? Are there legitimate forms of surveillance, for instance in relation to the “Four Horsemen of the Infopocalypse” (money laundering, drugs, terrorism and pornography)? And do we have the ability, through conscious action and technological savvy, to resist this tide and secure a world where freedom is something which the Internet helps bring about?

The harassment of WikiLeaks and other Internet activists, together with attempts to introduce anti-file sharing legislation such as SOPA and ACTA, indicate that the politics of the Internet have reached a crossroads. In one direction lies a future that guarantees, in the watchwords of the cypherpunks, “privacy for the weak and transparency for the powerful”; in the other lies an Internet that allows government and large corporations to discover ever more about internet users while hiding their own activities. Assange and his co-discussants unpick the complex issues surrounding this crucial choice with clarity and engaging enthusiasm.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

賽伏朋克(Cypherpunks)是倡導廣泛使用強大密碼學(以密碼寫作)作為實現進步變革的活動家。朱利安·阿桑奇(Julian Assange)是《維基解密》(WikiLeaks)的主編和願景領袖,自1980年代以來一直是賽伏朋克運動的主要聲音。

現在,阿桑奇在這本必定引起轟動的新書中,聚集了一小群來自網絡戰線的尖端思想家和活動家,討論電子通信是否會使我們解放還是奴役。討論的主題包括:Facebook和Google是否構成了「有史以來最大的監控機器」,不斷追蹤我們的位置、聯繫人和生活?我們大多數人是否並非監控的受害者,而是願意合作的共犯?是否存在合法的監控形式,例如與「信息末日四騎士」(洗錢、毒品、恐怖主義和色情)有關的監控?我們是否有能力通過有意識的行動和技術聰明,抵抗這股潮流,確保網絡幫助實現自由的世界?

對維基解密和其他網絡活動家的騷擾,以及試圖引入反共享文件立法(如SOPA和ACTA)的企圖,表明網絡政治已經到達了十字路口。一個方向是未來保證了賽伏朋克的口號中的「弱者隱私,強者透明」;另一個方向是一個允許政府和大型企業發現越來越多關於網絡用戶的信息,同時隱藏自己活動的網絡。阿桑奇和他的共同討論者以清晰而熱情的方式解開了圍繞這一關鍵選擇的複雜問題。