Crypto : How the Code Rebels Beat the Government--Saving Privacy in the Digital Age

Levy, Steven

ISBN 10: 0670859508 / ISBN 13: 9780670859504

Published by Viking, New York, 2001

About this Item

Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 356pp. A full-scale account of the great Code War that shook the computer age which outlines the development of a 'people's' cryptgraphy and its head-on collision with the U.S. government. It highlights the prediction that the internet's access to information was its most perilous aspect - an end to privacy. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery. Size: 9.25 x 6.25 inches.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Crypto : How the Code Rebels Beat the Government--Saving Privacy in the Digital Age
• Publisher: Viking, New York
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670859508
• ISBN 13: 9780670859504
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Computers / Games

About this title

Synopsis

The author of Hackers chronicles the two-decades-old battle to wrest control of information from government that paired the nation's computer-adept elite with big business. 40,000 first printing.

About the Author

Steven Levy is the author of Hackers, which has been in print for more than fifteen years, as well as Insanely Great: The Life & Times of Macintosh, the Computer That Changed Everything. He is also Newsweek's chief technology writer.