Surveillance Valley on sale today. Read about the internet's origins as a counterinsurgency weapon: an early warning radar system for human societies — from the Vietnam War to the Tor Project. https://t.co/BJ0ZDPGVek
— Yasha Levine (@yashalevine) February 6, 2018
The internet is a weapon: The first functional demonstration of TCP/IP involved a simulation of a NATO war with the Soviet Union. The guy who ran the test: Vint Cerf, Internet "Founding Father" and Google Evangelist. https://t.co/ziUQWmgb7z pic.twitter.com/fKchaHt8tD
— Yasha Levine (@yashalevine) February 7, 2018
Who weaponized the Internet? H'mmmmm… https://t.co/3w1sOYvzjn
— Yasha Levine (@yashalevine) February 7, 2018
The question I answer in this book is: Why did the internet become a corporate spy machine? Was that destiny built in? https://t.co/4P6Up4cU1B
— Yasha Levine (@yashalevine) February 6, 2018
From the legendary historian Stuart Ewen:
"Defying common Internet tropes that present a battle between valiant and independent rebels versus omnipresent state and corporate powers, no one comes out of this book looking clean." pic.twitter.com/VTxIBC2vUR
— Yasha Levine (@yashalevine) February 6, 2018
Fans of the Tor Project and other USG-funded privacy tech might want to pick up a copy — or actually, you probably don't. It won't give comfort to your myths.
Tor would never disclose possible security weaknesses to the federal government before telling its users, right? pic.twitter.com/ZiqlSTBlCC
— Yasha Levine (@yashalevine) February 6, 2018
"In this fast-paced, myth-busting expose, Yasha Levine documents how a collection of spooks, cybernetic fanatics and libertarian oligarchs have exploited the internet to promote regime change abroad and establish a totalistic spying network at home." — @MaxBlumenthal pic.twitter.com/VDFpvcEPy9
— Yasha Levine (@yashalevine) February 6, 2018
Hell yeah. Surveillance Valley is on the front page of @thebafflermag. It's an honor! https://t.co/cSOjw5C9y9 (It's an excerpt from the prologue.) pic.twitter.com/L213BRLUh1
— Yasha Levine (@yashalevine) February 6, 2018
"Some even dreamed of creating a sort of early warning radar for human societies: a networked computer system that watched for social and political threats and intercepted them in much the same way that traditional radar did for hostile aircraft." pic.twitter.com/65rGoqUaZ4
— Yasha Levine (@yashalevine) February 6, 2018
The found that the internet was used to spy on millions of Americans as early as 1972, as soon as it was created.
You won't read about this episode in any other book about the internet because it doesn't sit well with our culture's tech utopia myth.https://t.co/xpu31yBGFd pic.twitter.com/QIWlhmElew
— Yasha Levine (@yashalevine) February 7, 2018
🇺🇸 With Vint Cerf from @DARPA
I'm extremely honored.
Because I am fan of the man.
And I am fan of DARPA. pic.twitter.com/aHD31DbkZT— Paulo Sa Elias (@paulosaelias) February 15, 2016