| This Machine Kills Secrets | |
| Author: | Andy Greenberg |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | Dutton |
| Pub Date: | 2012 |
| Pages: | 370 |
| Isbn: | 978-0-7535-4051-0 |
This Machine Kills Secrets is a 2012 book by Andy Greenberg[1] about "how WikiLeakers, cypherpunks, and hacktivists aim to free the world's information."[2] The book looks at "a revolutionary protest movement bent not on stealing information, but on building a tool that inexorably coaxes it out, a technology that slips inside of institutions and levels their defenses like a Trojan horse of cryptographic software and silicon." The interview with Julian Assange[3] which served as a launching point for the book was published by Forbes, and was read nearly a million times.
The book looks at the history of "politically motivated information leaks ... the lives and work of numerous cryptographers, hackers and whistleblowers", including WikiLeaks and the people involved.[4] It talks about WikiLeaks being modeled on Nicolas Bourbaki, and how it could be infiltrated by informers, harassed or spied on.