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Chad Kohalyk
Reader, writer, technologist, theoretical magician. Generous with Likes.
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ʎɥɔɹɐuɐoʇdʎɹɔ
A review of This Machine Kills Secrets
This Machine Kills Secrets: How WikiLeakers, Cypherpunks, and Hacktivists Aim to Free the World’s Information by Andy Greenberg “Hacker culture” is often characterized by curiosity, meritocracy, independence and self-reliance. It is no wonder that libertarianism enjoys such prevalence in Silicon Valley. “Freedom through encryption” is the clarion call of a certain subset of hackers identified as crypto-anarchists or the related cypherpunks.
Chad Kohalyk
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4 more horsemen — a review of Cypherpunks
This book is really a footnoted conversation between Julian Assange, Jacob Appelbaum, Andy Müller-Maguhn and Jérémie Zimmermann, some big…
Chad Kohalyk
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ʎɥɔɹɐuɐoʇdʎɹɔ
A review of This Machine Kills Secrets
Chad Kohalyk
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Future classic — a review of The Windup Girl
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi Modern genre fiction, that is science fiction and fantasy from the post Cold War era, is certainly…
Chad Kohalyk
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How Dread Pirate Roberts (Silk Road) got caught.
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