Julian Assange’s new book warns on Internet surveillance

Julian Assange’s book an exercise in dystopian musings WikiLeaks founder’s Cypherpunks warns tool he relies on and used to make his name is ‘global surveillance industry’ target Esther Addley guardian.co.uk, 26 November 2012 Julian Assange‘s new book is not a manifesto, he writes in its introduction – “There is no time for that”. Instead the short volume,entitledCypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet and published on Monday, is intended to be what the Wikileaks founder calls “a watchman’s shout in the night”, warning of an imminent threat to all civilisation from “the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen” – the web……

Assange acknowledges in his introduction. “While many writers have considered what what the internet means for global civilisation, they are wrong … They are wrong because they have never met the enemy … We have met the enemy.”

Jeremie Zimmermann, co-founder and spokesman for the French citizen advocacy group La Quadrature du Net (Squaring the Net) and one of Assange’s named fellow authors, told the Guardian when the book was announced that it would cover “a wide range of issues: from surveillance to data protection, from corporate influence over politics to citizen participation and action, transparency and accountability, from liberalism to anarchism, from copyright enforcement to culture, from flying killing robots (drones) to representation of crime scenes depicting abuse of children (child porn)”.

Also contributing to the book are Jacob Applebaum, a US-based computer security expert, and Andy Müller-Maguhn, a leading German hacker….. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/nov/26/julian-asaange-paranoia-surveillance?commentpage=1#comment-19701760

November 27, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Audiovisual

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