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Digital cash: the unknown history of the anarchists, utopians, and technologists who created cryptocurrency
Brunton F., PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, Princeton, NJ, 2019. 272 pp. Type: Book (978-0-691179-49-0)
This comprehensive book covers the history of digital cash/currency, including the current era of Bitcoin and blockchain technology. The author argues that digital cash is to be understood in terms of authentication, ownership, and cer...
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Feb 10 2020
Obfuscation: a user’s guide for privacy and protest
Brunton F., Nissenbaum H., The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2015. 136 pp. Type: Book (978-0-262029-73-5)
On its first page, the book makes a strong point about wanting to start a revolution: “not a big revolution--at least, not at first.” Throughout the book, the authors explore how obfuscation has been, is, a...
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May 20 2016
Spam: a shadow history of the Internet
Brunton F., The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2013. 296 pp. Type: Book (978-0-262018-87-6), Reviews: (2 of 2)
One is amazed by the creative approaches used to exploit holes and opportunities in communication systems to, say, push a message or make money fast. We’ve all been trying to fight the annoying messages that we’re u...
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Mar 25 2014
Spam: a shadow history of the Internet
Brunton F., The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2013. 296 pp. Type: Book (978-0-262018-87-6), Reviews: (1 of 2)
Brunton, an assistant professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan, provides a detailed and informative cultural history of spam, from the “first protospam message,” sent on May 1, 1978, to c...
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Oct 28 2013
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