Darknet is the first book I read by Matthew Mather. I also have read Cyberstorm which I highly recommend. Darknet is the story of a stockbroker who stumbles into a secret of one of the world’s largest corporations and is fighting for his life and his family’s lives (as well as several others in the same […]
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The Threat to the Open Internet
I am reading a fascinating book right now called The Master Switch : The Rise and Fall of Information Empires by Tim Wu. The premise of the book is that information empires (the telephone, film, and TV) all undergo a very similar lifecycle as they mature. They start out as open platforms with the introduction of […]
Do Corporations Bear a Societal Burden?
I was listening to a podcast by Rebecca MacKinnon last night. You can watch the video here. Rebecca is an activist campaigning to retake the internet, which by her definition means lessening the influence and power of large corporations. There were a couple of points in the talk that raised some interesting questions. Is modern-day […]