Julian Assange

Jérémie Zimmermann

Andy Müller-Maguhn

Jacob Appelbaum

Visionary WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange brings together a small group of cutting-edge thinkers and activists to discuss whether electronic communications will emancipate or enslave. Among the topics addressed are: Do Facebook and Google constitute the greatest surveillance machine that ever existed,' perpetually tracking people's locations, contacts and lives? Far from being victims of that surveillance, are most people willing collaborators? Are there legitimate forms of surveillance? And does anyone have the ability to resist this tide?'

Freedom and the Future of the Internet

Cypherpunks

"In June 2011, Julian Assange received an unusual visitor: the chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt, arrived from America at Ellingham Hall, the country residence in Norfolk, England where Assange was living under house arrest. For several hours the besieged leader of the world's most famous insurgent publishing organization and the billionaire head of the world's largest information empire locked horns. The two men debated the political problems faced by society, and the technological solutions engendered by the global network--from the Arab Spring to Bitcoin. They outlined radically opposing perspectives: for Assange, the liberating power of the Internet is based on its freedom and statelessness. For Schmidt, emancipation is at one with US foreign policy objectives and is driven by connecting non-Western countries to American companies and markets. These differences embodied a tug-of-war over the Internet's future that has only gathered force subsequently. When Google Met WikiLeaks presents the story of Assange and Schmidt's encounter. Both fascinating and alarming, it contains an edited transcript of their conversation and extensive, new material, written by Assange specifically for this book, providing the best available summary of his vision for the future of the Internet." -- Publisher's description.

When Google Met WikiLeaks

What Cablegate tells us about the scope of U.S. foreign policy around the world

The World According to US Empire

The WikiLeaks Files

In December 2010, Julian Assange signed a contract with Canongate Books to write a book - part memoir, part manifesto - for publication the following year. At the time, Julian said: 'I hope this book will become one of the unifying documents of our generation. In this highly personal work, I explain our global struggle to force a new relationship between the people and their governments.' In the end, the work was to prove too personal. Despite sitting for more than fifty hours of taped interviews discussing his life and the work of WikiLeaks with the writer he had enlisted to help him, Julian became increasingly troubled by the thought of publishing an autobiography. After reading the first draft of the book at the end of March, Julian declared: 'All memoir is prostitution.' In June 2011, with thirty-eight publishing houses around the world committed to releasing the book, Julian told us he wanted to cancel his contract. We disagree with Julian's assessment of the book. We believe it explains both the man and his work, underlining his commitment to the truth. Julian always claimed the book was well written; we agree, and this also encouraged us to make the book available to readers. And the contract? By the time Julian wanted to cancel the deal he had already used the advance money to settle his legal bills. So the contract still stands. We have decided to honour it - and to publish. This book is the unauthorised first draft. It is passionate, provocative and opinionated - like its author. It fulfils the promise of the original proposal and we are proud to publish it.Canongate Books, September 2011

The Unauthorised Autobiography

The Internet has led to revolutions across the world but a crackdown is now in full swing. As whole societies move online, mass surveillance programs are being deployed globally. Our civilization has reached a crossroads. In one direction lies a future promoting "privacy for the weak and transparency for the powerful"; in the other is an internet that transfers power over entire populations to an unaccountable complex of spy agencies and their trans-national corporate allies. Cypherpunks are activists who advocate the mass use of strong cryptography as a way protecting our basic freedoms against this onslaught. Julian Assange, the editor-in-chief of an visionary behind Wikileaks, has been a leading voice in the cypherpunk movement since the 1990s. Now, in a timely and important new book, Assange brings together a group of rebel thinkers and activists from the front line of the battle for cyberspace to discuss whether the internet will emancipate or enslave all of us.--

Şifrepunk

Onaylanmamış Otobiyografi

"Memoarer är prostitution" 

Suelette Dreyfus

Suelette Dreyfus and her co-author, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, tell the extraordinary true story of the computer underground, and the bizarre lives and crimes of an elite ring of international hackers who took on the establishment. Spanning three continents and a decade of high level infiltration, they created chaos amongst some of the world's biggest and most powerful organisations, including NASA and the US military. Brilliant and obsessed, many of them found themselves addicted to hacking and phreaking. Some descended into drugs and madness, others ended up in jail. As riveting as the finest detective novel and meticulously researched, Underground follows the hackers through their crimes, their betrayals, the hunt, raids and investigations. It is a gripping tale of the digital underground.

Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier

Underground

Julian Assange conta seu encontro com Eric Schmidt, presidente do Google, discutindo os problemas políticos enfrentados pela sociedade - da Primavera Árabe ao Bitcoin - e as respostas tecnológicas geradas pela rede global para esses dilemas. Depois da publicação de Cypherpunks: liberdade e o futuro da internet e há mais de dois anos asilado na Embaixada do Equador em Londres, Julian Assange, fundador e editor do WikiLeaks, lança no Brasil seu segundo e mais recente livro, Quando o Google encontrou o WikiLeaks. Ao longo de 168 páginas, Assange discute as consequências da acumulação de poder pelo Google no século XXI e relata seu encontro com Eric Schmidt, presidente do grupo, em 2011. O resultado é um livro fascinante e alarmante, que revela os polos opostos em que esses dois personagens icônicos da atual "era tecnológica" se encontram e suas opiniões divergentes sobre o destino do mundo e das novas tecnologias. O livro ganhou destaque na imprensa internacional, noticiado em jornais como The Guardian e The Independent, por fazer parte da empreitada de Assange para revolucionar as formas de acesso à informação. Quando o Google encontrou o WikiLeaks apresenta a conversa entre Schmidt e Assange em forma de diálogo transcrito, e inclui ainda um prefácio redigido pelo fundador do WikiLeaks especialmente para a edição brasileira.

Quando o Google encontrou o WikiLeaks

Edward Snowden

Angela Richter

'Whistleblower, Internetaktivisten, Coder, Cyberpunks, Geeks. Es sind die Nerds, die derzeit die Kultur der Welt bewegen. Sie haben uns die Augen geöffnet, uns aufgeklärt im besten und wörtlichsten Sinne eines westlichen Wertesystems.' Angela Richter Für ihr neues Projekt "Die Avantgarde der Supernerds" hat die Theaterregisseurin Angela Richter ausführliche Interviews mit den Whistleblowern und Netzaktivisten Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, Daniel Ellsberg (Pentagon Papers), Jesselyn Radack, William Binney und Thomas Drake geführt. Diese Gespräche sind Auseinandersetzungen nicht nur mit der Gefährdung der Demokratie durch die Geheimdienste, dem wachsenden Überwachungsapparat und den zunehmenden Verletzungen der Pressefreiheit in den USA, sondern auch sehr persönliche Gespräche über das eigene Schicksal, den Kampf gegen eine Staatsmacht, die Pflicht zum Verrat. Parallel zu Angela Richters Theaterprojekt erscheinen die Gespräche erstmals in deutscher Sprache. "Die Avantgarde der Supernerds" hat am 28. Mai 2015 am Schauspiel Köln Premiere und wird gleichzeitig im WDR im Rahmen einer Sondersendung live übertragen. Dazu entsteht ein Dokumentarfilm, der anschließend ausgestrahlt wird.

Gespräche mit Helden

Supernerds

Julian Assange in His Own Words

Autobiographie (Arbeitstitel)

'It's a type of reorganization or infection of humanity's thought system, the way humanity talks to itself, the way a society thinks. It's like everyone simultaneously is taking LSD.' Julian Assange 'No one is more hopelessly enslaved than those who think they're free.' Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ever since Edward Snowden's NSA disclosures, the might of the secret services and the helplessness of everyday citizens are there all around us for everyone to see. But who is taking up the fight against global surveillance and the erosion of democracy? Theater director Angela Richter has conducted in-depth interviews with a number of well-known whistleblowers and internet activists - the 'Supernerds'. Conversations with Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, Daniel Ellsberg, Jesselyn Radack, William Binney, Jeremy Hammond and Thomas Drake, an Essay by Barrett Brown and drawings by Daniel Richter.

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