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This book talks about the cyber security, growing surveillance, and the future of the internet. The book in fact serves as a warning that internet has become a tool of the police state and that the increasing use of it is leading the world towards totalitarianism. The primary concern of the book is society's relationship with the internet security. Google, Facebook, Twitter have become some of the utmost surveillance sites ever in the history and they carry much of personal and public data which can prove to be fatal for all. Cryptology according to them is a science that can save the world from becoming totalitarian.

As described by Oliver Stone, "Cypherpunks is gripping, vital reading, explaining clearly the way in which corporate and government control of the internet, poses a fundamental threat to our freedom and democracy". The book Cypherpunks: Freedom and The Future of The Internet is a conversation between Julian himself, a co-founder of WikiLeaks, Jacob Appelbaum (WikiLeaks/Tor Project), Andy Müller-Maguhn (Chaos Computer Club) and Jérémie Zimmermann (La Quadrature Du Net). These conversations are edited and presented together in thematic chapters for easy reading of the book. It is a genuine debate between the four of them with proper, well polished and convincing arguments.

The chapters deal in detail on topics such as The Militarization of Cyberspace, Fighting Total Surveillance with the Laws of Physics, Private Sector Spying, Censorship, The Internet And the Politics, The Internet and the Economics etc. According to Slavoj Žižek this book is an "Obligatory reading for everyone interested in the reality of our freedoms."

In short, in words of Naomi Wolf this book is “a wake-up call about a possible dystopian future, which is a technological reality now… While messengers of dangerous outcomes are always met at first with hostility and even mockery, history shows that we disregard such warnings as these at our peril." This book is now available in India on the popular online shopping portals like infibeam.com. Infibeam is one of the best online destinations for buying books as they cater to the needs of various book genre readers.

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About the Author:

Julian Paul Assange gained much popularity in the last few years as a co-founder of WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks publishes submissions of secret information and Julian is the Editor-in- Chief of this. He is an Australian editor, activist, publisher and journalist who started off his career as a hacker during his teenage. He has recently published book called Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet to warn the world about loopholes in the internet security.