| Details | | Publication Date: | 2002-01-01 | | Edition Description: | Reissue |
| Size | | Height: | 8.0 in | | Width: | 5.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 11.2 oz |
Publisher's Note
Tells the inside story of how a group of "crypto rebels" teamed up with corporate interests to beat Big Brother and ensure consumers' privacy on the Internet.. Reprint.
Industry Reviews
"[B]eautifully told. [The author is] marvelously alert to the twists and paradoxes in this extraordinary story."
Times Literary Supplement - Ferdinand Mount (02/02/2001)
"Levy is a master at zippy, cyberpunk storytelling..."
Guardian (London) (02/10/2001)
"Without ever becoming quite that wild-eyed, Levy's reporting verges on advocacy journalism--particularly in his accounts of the long-term conflict between the rebel cryptographers and authorities at the N.S.A. The libertarian ethos of the cryptography underground treats the right to privacy as an absolute. To them, the idea that the public good could be threatened by the power of anyone to conceal anything is hopelessly irrelevant. Those who raise such concerns are, it seems, just making themselves hysterical by imagining drug-dealing pedophiles with black-market atomic bombs. All efforts by the government to control the development and dissemination of encryption are shown as misguided and pointless, if not in fact Big Brotherly."
New York Times Book Review (01/14/2000)
"[T]he book is as fine and accurate a portrayal as you will find anywhere. And it's a terrific read. Levy even manages to provide a cursory understanding of encryption itself-without resorting to a single diagram or equation."
Wired - Simson Garfinkel (01/20/2001)
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