Knowledge Is Power, Code Is King, and Orwell Was Right

23/02/2015
Knowledge Is Power, Code Is King, and Orwell Was Right

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Editor’s Note: This is a short excerpt from Future Crimes – the scariest book I have ever read: In George  Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984, he depicted an omnipotent government surveillance state controlled  by a privileged few elite who persecuted independent thinking as “thought crimes.” Though Orwell clearly would have foreseen the NSA debacle, it’s less clear […]

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