Probably like most people, I thought this book would talk about how DARPA created the Internet to enable US communications and information to survive a nuclear attack, a system where one area could be destroyed and the rest survive and function for communication purposes and information exchange. The author could have easily written an entire book about Tor and its close ties to US intelligence, yet it’s buried in the back of a book that sounds more like an encyclopedic treatise on the origins of the Internet. And yet, it has close relations with US intelligence and is even funded by them. Tor worked closely with WikiLeaks and provided training for many Arab Spring protest organizers to avert government censorship and allowed them to use US social media to organize. While the subtitle of this book is ‘Secret Military History of the Internet’, it’s odd that the biggest and most shocking story is only contained in the last two chapters of the book, that is, the story of Tor which is the most well-known privacy software tool for keeping Internet users anonymous on the dark web.
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