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Hacking the future : privacy, identity, and anonymity on the Web / Cole Stryker.

By: Stryker, Cole.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Overlook Duckworth, 2012Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-248) and index.Description: 255 p. ; 21 cm.ISBN: 1590209745 (US); 9781590209745 (US); 9780715644041 (UK).Other title: Privacy, identity, and anonymity on the Web.Subject(s): Computer programming -- Moral and ethical aspects | Hackers | Hacktivism | Internet -- Security measures | Online identities | Computer security | Internet | Privacy | Identity (Psychology)DDC classification: 004.678 | 005.8
Contents:
A brief history of anonymity -- Anonymous rises -- Anonymous goes political -- Anonymity wired -- The age of the anonymous web -- The year of the hacktivist -- Nym wars -- Is total anonymity even possible? -- Is total transparency even possible? -- Faces of anonymity -- The case for anonymity.
Summary: A broad analysis of how issues in anonymity and privacy are influencing politics, activism, religion, and art in America and the world poses strong arguments about free speech, Internet identity, and online piracy while profiling some of the tools and organizations that have evolved on both sides of the debate.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-248) and index.

A brief history of anonymity -- Anonymous rises -- Anonymous goes political -- Anonymity wired -- The age of the anonymous web -- The year of the hacktivist -- Nym wars -- Is total anonymity even possible? -- Is total transparency even possible? -- Faces of anonymity -- The case for anonymity.

A broad analysis of how issues in anonymity and privacy are influencing politics, activism, religion, and art in America and the world poses strong arguments about free speech, Internet identity, and online piracy while profiling some of the tools and organizations that have evolved on both sides of the debate.

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