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Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government--Saving Privacy in the Digital Age Paperback - 2002
by Levy, Steven (Author)
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From the author who made "hacker" a household word comes a groundbreaking book about the most hotly debated subject of the digital age. "Crypto" concerns privacy in the information age and about the nerds and visionaries who, nearly 20 years ago, predicted that the Internet's greatest virtue--free access to information--was also its most perilous drawback: a possible end to privacy.
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- Title Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government--Saving Privacy in the Digital Age
- Author Levy, Steven (Author)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st
- Condition New
- Pages 368
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York
- Date 2002
- Features Bibliography, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # x-0140244328
- ISBN 9780140244328 / 0140244328
- Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 7.96 x 5.4 x 0.84 in (20.22 x 13.72 x 2.13 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Computer security, Cryptography
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00043809
- Dewey Decimal Code 005.8
Summary
If you've ever made a secure purchase with your credit card over the Internet, then you have seen cryptography, or "crypto", in action. From Stephen Levythe author who made "hackers" a household wordcomes this account of a revolution that is already affecting every citizen in the twenty-first century. Crypto tells the inside story of how a group of "crypto rebels"nerds and visionaries turned freedom fightersteamed up with corporate interests to beat Big Brother and ensure our privacy on the Internet. Levy's history of one of the most controversial and important topics of the digital age reads like the best futuristic fiction.
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- Entertainment Weekly, 01/11/2002, Page 65