Archive for Steven Levy
Book Review ~ How the Code Rebels Beat the Government-Saving Privacy in the Digital Age
Viking o 2001 o 356 pages o $25.95 Reviewed by Jim Bovard Steven Levy’s Crypto describes how a small band of high-tech geeks and others defeated the federal government’s efforts to outlaw cryptography-the use of secret codes and ciphers to scramble information so that it’s worthless to anyone but the intended recipients. The book begins [...]
1Nov2002 | Steven Levy | 0 comments | Continued-
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