Mal's Reviews > When Google Met Wikileaks

Excellent book. And inspiring to see the kind of courage demonstrated by WikiLeaks and their ilk. And even more inspiring to see that, despite the behemoths and disturbing budgets of US and other intelligence agencies, we have smart people fighting back, shoving unwanted transparency down the throats of the world's major government bullies (the US, Britain and China, among others). A bonus for anyone of a technical bent is that the book provides a basic overview of the kind of cat and mouse games that Wikileaks and their kind are playing with governments from a technology standpoint.

Oh - and, yea, - Google. Assange claims, and the transcription of their talk seems to confirm in some way (given that Eric Schmidt makes not one single commentary to indicate any of his own concerns about US government security policy), that the whole exercise was basically organised by the US State Department in order to fish out any valuable information that can be exploited
in their on-going dual.

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