{"id":21570,"date":"2013-01-17T21:31:19","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T20:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=21570"},"modified":"2013-01-17T21:31:19","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T20:31:19","slug":"no-more-secrets-the-new-era-of-total-surveillance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/no-more-secrets-the-new-era-of-total-surveillance\/","title":{"rendered":"No more secrets! The new era of total surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/users\/jesse.hicks\">Jesse Hicks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just two years ago, Andy Greenberg had an hours-long interview with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The author and\u00a0<em>Forbes<\/em>\u00a0reporter listened as Assange claimed to have a massive trove of documents, the release of which, he promised, could \u201ctake down a bank or two.\u201d When Greenberg reported the story, stock speculation led to Bank of America losing $3.5 billion in market value in just a few hours. But the promised documents never materialized.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the real story was in a casual remark Assange made at the end of the interview, after Greenberg\u2019s recorder was turned off. He promised a \u201cmegaleak\u201d seven times the size of the Iraq War document collection the group had already set into the wild. Asked whether it would affect the private sector or government, Assange answered \u201cboth,\u201d and asked which industries, he replied, \u201cAll of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If Assange was overstating the case, it wasn\u2019t by much. The release of 251,000 classified State Department cables laid bare the secrets of international relations. The revelations helped spur the Arab Spring, the effects of which are still reverberating; according to CNN, the WikiLeaks dump helped deep-six negotiations that would have kept American troops in Iraq past the 2011 withdrawal date. And those are only the most obvious effects.<\/p>\n<p>The Cablegate release kept reporters plenty busy for over a year. But Greenberg wondered what had happened to the banking documents hyped by Assange. He began digging into not just WikiLeaks, but the history of leaking, of cryptography and technological anonymity. The resulting book,\u00a0<em>This Machine Kills Secrets: How WikiLeakers, Cypherpunks, and Hacktivists Aim to Free the World\u2019s Information<\/em>, spans from Daniel Ellsberg to Bradley Manning, cypherpunks to Icelandic information activists, the Chaos Computer Club to Occupy Wall Street. Via e-mail, he discussed with us the difference between the Pentagon Papers and Cablegate; his encounter with The Architect, the engineer behind WikiLeaks; and the future of online anonymity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2013\/1\/17\/3759618\/no-more-secrets-andy-greenberg-on-wikileaks-cypherpunks?\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anonymity tools are powerful, and offense seems to be easier than defense in information security, especially for big institutions. So it seems like only a matter of time until the mice score another WikiLeaks-like victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1614,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21570","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-surveillance-big-brother","7":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}