Andy Greenberg has covered cyber security and privacy for Forbes since 2007. Based in New York, Greenberg's reporting has taken him from an autonomous car race in the California desert to Beijing, where he first cut his teeth as a freelance journalist in 2004. Most recently, Greenberg's travels have taken him to Iceland and London, where he produced the world's first cover story on WikiLeaks' Julian Assange.
[Greenberg] capitalises on his unrivalled access to may of the key players, including those poster boys, Bradley Manning and Julian Assange. * New Scientist * A must-read for those seeking to understand the decades-long struggle between openness and secrecy, anonymity and attribution-and why that might be the most important struggle of the modern era. Meticulously researched, Greenberg provides first-hand accounts of the eccentric pioneers who are coding around censorship, repression, and even traditional law. He also captures the relentless, distributed nature of the movement that's powering it all * Daniel Suarez, New York Times bestselling author of Daemon and Kill Decision * Greenberg's vivid storytelling makes the forces that culminated in Wikileaks-the people, the politics, and especially the technology - come alive * Bruce Schneier, author of Liars and Outliers and Applied Cryptography * Greenberg masterfully portrays a new reality. Radical transparency for firms and governments is not just a decision but a technological fact of life * Don Tapscott, bestselling author of Wikinomics, the Naked Corporation and Macrowikinomics * Brilliantly written ... will be one of the most important books of the decade * Birgitta Jonsdottir, Member of the Icelandic Parliament for the Movement & chairperson of the International Modern Media Institution *