加密朋克 (2012)

《密码朋克：互联网的自由和未来》是朱利安·阿桑奇于2012年出版的一本书籍。此书记录了他与互联网活动家Jacob Appelbaum、Andy Müller-Maguhn以及Jérémie Zimmermann的讨论。书中主要探讨了社会与信息安全的关系。在书中作者警告说，互联网已经成为警察国家的一个工具，而这个世界正无意中向极权主义发展。他们提倡使用密码学来应对国家监视。

在引言中，阿桑奇说这本书“不是一个宣言...而是一个警告”。他告诉卫报记者 Decca Aitkenhead： “使用设计良好的数学算法可以快速加密信息，并且使得解密的代价非常大，例如即使使用机器破解，也需要花费几百上千万美金的电费。所以密码学是互联网机构保持独立性的基础设施，就好像军队是国家的基础设施一样。如果没有这些，国家将会被另一个国家占领。这是唯一能够是我们的意识独立于世界警卫（实际控制显示世界的人）的方法” 阿桑奇后来在卫报一篇文章中写道：“强加密技术是反抗国家压迫的重要工具”，并且指出这是他的书籍《密码朋克》所传达的信息。

《密码朋克》由OR Books出版。其内容源自阿桑奇在2012年与 Appelbaum、Müller-Maguhn 以及 Zimmermann 在他的的电视秀世界的明天中的讨论。

章节主题

通信的发展与监督的发展

赛博空间中的军事设施

使用人类的法律抵抗完全监听

隐私监视

使用物理定律反击绝对监控

互联网和政治

互联网和经济学

弱者的隐私与强者的透明

歌剧院的老鼠

Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet is a 2012 book by Julian Assange, in discussion with Internet activists and cypherpunks Jacob Appelbaum, Andy Müller-Maguhn and Jérémie Zimmermann. Its primary topic is society's relationship with information security. In the book, the authors warn that the Internet has become a tool of the police state, and that the world is inadvertently heading toward a form of totalitarianism. They promote the use of cryptography to protect against state surveillance.

In the introduction, Assange says that the book is "not a manifesto [...] [but] a warning". He told Guardian journalist Decca Aitkenhead:

A well-defined mathematical algorithm can encrypt something quickly, but to decrypt it would take billions of years – or trillions of dollars' worth of electricity to drive the computer. So cryptography is the essential building block of independence for organisations on the Internet, just like armies are the essential building blocks of states, because otherwise one state just takes over another. There is no other way for our intellectual life to gain proper independence from the security guards of the world, the people who control physical reality.

Assange later wrote in The Guardian: "Strong cryptography is a vital tool in fighting state oppression." saying that was the message of his book, Cypherpunks.

Cypherpunks is published by OR Books. It is primarily a transcript of World Tomorrow episode eight, a two-part interview between Assange, Jacob Appelbaum, Andy Müller-Maguhn, and Jérémie Zimmermann. In the foreword, Assange said, "the Internet, our greatest tool for emancipation, has been transformed into the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen".