Re: This Machine Kills Secrets
Here are the book's contents, list of characters, and index: http://cryptome.org/2012/08/greenberg-leaks-secrets.pdf Not a few in the book will regret talking to Greenberg and might seek revenge using cpunks wizardry and subterfuge against the author and Forbes. Smells of a smear by the capitalist fools. Pretty good Wired-level read, above average on the tech, but marred by the personal slop, authorial preening and evasion of inconvenient truth which are now obligatory among craven journalists running scared of their salacity-demanding fans, censorious lawyers and immoral publishers. While that is not news here, Greenberg managed to breach defenses by MTMing targets induced to finger one another. Personal stuff allegedly revealed by Greenberg's "characters" Tim May, John Gilmore, Phil Zimmermann and Mudge, for example, might arouse gossip-loving readers to hoot and holler. Formulaic padding about WikiLeaks and hangers-on is rancid recycling still being massively churned to entice rabid book sellers and advertizers sustaining Forbe's fortune. At 10:01 PM 9/18/2012, you wrote:
Lotsa Cypherpunk stuff in there, apparently. Anyone talk to this guy?
Reward with dollars (ie, buy)? Or does information in this case want to be free? If the former, no doubt I'll be buying in cash.
-TD
Tim May posted a review of This Machine Kills Secret on Amazon on September 14, 2012: "Reads Like a Good Novel" http://www.amazon.com/This-Machine-Kills-Secrets-WikiLeakers/dp/0525953205/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1348333215&sr=1-1&keywords=this+machine+kills+secrets+how+wikileakers
On 9/22/2012 1:01 PM, John Young wrote:
Tim May posted a review of This Machine Kills Secret on Amazon on September 14, 2012:
"Reads Like a Good Novel"
A copy just showed up at my doorstep the other day; Yet to get it cracked open yet, but I am curious... John, Never realized you were so famous...
If it was fame, it was fleeting, so fleet I missed the benefits and got only the cesspool backflow. At 04:00 PM 9/22/2012, you wrote:
On 9/22/2012 1:01 PM, John Young wrote:
Tim May posted a review of This Machine Kills Secret on Amazon on September 14, 2012:
"Reads Like a Good Novel"
A copy just showed up at my doorstep the other day; Yet to get it cracked open yet, but I am curious...
John,
Never realized you were so famous...
On 2012-09-22, John Young wrote:
If it was fame, it was fleeting, so fleet I missed the benefits and got only the cesspool backflow.
And yet you already built the spire far ahead of WikiLeaks. It isn't as though we don't refer to cryptome everyday... -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - decoy@iki.fi, http://decoy.iki.fi/front +358-50-5756111, 025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2
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