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Crypto by Steven Levy
If you've ever made a secure purchase with your credit card over the Internet, then you have seen cryptography, or crypto, in action. From Stephen Levy--the author who made hackers a household word--comes this account of a revolution that is already affecting every citizen in the twenty-first century. Crypto tells the inside story of how a group of crypto rebelsnerds and visionaries turned freedom fightersteamed up with corporate interests to beat Big Brother and ensure our privacy on the Internet. Levy's history of one of the most controversial and important topics of the digital age reads like the best futuristic fiction.
Steven Levy is Wired's editor at large. The Washington Post has called him America's premier technology journalist. His previous positions include founder of Backchannel and chief technology writer and senior editor for Newsweek. Levy has written seven previous books, and his work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Harper's Magazine, Macworld, The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, The New Yorker, and Premiere. Levy has also won several awards during his thirty-plus years of writing about technology, including for his book Hackers, which PC Magazine named the best sci-tech book written in the past twenty years; and for Crypto, which won the grand e-book prize at the 2001 Frankfurt Book Fair.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780670859504 |
| ISBN 10 | 0670859508 |
| Title | Crypto |
| Author | Steven Levy |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2000-08-31 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Prizes | Winner of International eBook Award Foundation (Grand Nonfiction) 2001 |
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