Steven Levy Book Tour

Declan McCullagh declan at well.com
Sun Jan 7 20:21:25 PST 2001


I took a copy of Steven's book to Aruba and read most of it there.

Very worthwhile. I'll review it soon.

-Declan


On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 06:29:51PM -0500, John Young wrote:
> Steven Levy writes:
> 
> Here is a link to some sites for a book tour:
> 
>    http://www.penguinputnam.com/stevenlevy/tour.htm
> 
> Not on there for some reason is a reading/discussion at Microsoft's Mountain
> View (CA) campus on Jan 12 at 3:30 p.m. that's open to the public.  Another
> public event is Jan. 16 at the University of Washington bookstore in
> Seattle, at 7 pm. 
> 
> -----
> 
> Sorry I failed to mention previously the full title of Steve's new book
> (first posted, I thnk, by Commando Hettinga):
> 
> "CRYPTO: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government - Saving 
> Privacy in the Digital Age."
> 
> And more:
> 
> Endorsements for Crypto by Neal Stephenson, Kevin Kelly and David Kahn:
> 
> "You've got to hear this story of how renegade geniuses and unlikely heroes
> liberated crypto from under the noses of spooks, and installed the code in
> the dream servers of dot-coms. This book persuaded me that despite the
> dangers of strong crypto (it gives a chance for evil to hide) providing it
> to the public was a Very Good Thing. Crypto not only makes e-commerce
> possible, it is also the first political movement in the digital era. Read
> about the future here."
> --Kevin Kelly, author of New Rules for the New Economy and Editor-at-Large,
> Wired Magazine
> 
> "At last! The human story of the breakthroughs that gave us e-commerce and
> privacy on the Internet. Steve Levy has written cryptography's Soul of a New
> Machine.'"
> --David Kahn, author of The Codebreakers
> 
> "Civilian crypto hardly existed three decades ago.  Now we can't get cash
> from an ATM or buy something on the Net without it.  To tell the story
> coherently is a service, and to tell it entertainingly is a favor to anyone
> with a stake in crypto--which nowadays means all of us.  CRYPTO  is a book
> that needed to be written and Steven Levy has written it. "
> -- Neal Stephenson, author of Cryptonomicon
> 
> Author Bio
> 
> Steven Levy is also the author of Hackers and Insanely Great: The Life &
> Times of Macintosh, the Computer That Changed Everything. He is Newsweek's
> chief technology writer, a former writer for Macworld, and a frequent
> contributor to Wired.
> 
> 





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