Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy

Collier, Ben

  • 出版商: MIT
  • 出版日期: 2024-04-16
  • 售價: $1,590
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$1,511
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 242
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 0262548186
  • ISBN-13: 9780262548182
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商品描述

A biography of Tor--a cultural and technological history of power, privacy, and global politics at the internet's core.

Tor, one of the most important and misunderstood technologies of the digital age, is best known as the infrastructure underpinning the so-called Dark Web. But the real "dark web," when it comes to Tor, is the hidden history brought to light in this book: where this complex and contested infrastructure came from, why it exists, and how it connects with global power in intricate and intimate ways. In Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy, Ben Collier has written, in essence, a biography of Tor--a cultural and technological history of power, privacy, politics, and empire in the deepest reaches of the internet.

The story of Tor begins in the 1990s with its creation by the US Navy's Naval Research Lab, from a convergence of different cultural worlds. Drawing on in-depth interviews with designers, developers, activists, and users, along with twenty years of mailing lists, design documents, reporting, and legal papers, Collier traces Tor's evolution from those early days to its current operation on the frontlines of global digital power--including the strange collaboration between US military scientists and a group of freewheeling hackers called the Cypherpunks. As Collier charts the rise and fall of three different cultures in Tor's diverse community--the engineers, the maintainers, and the activists, each with a distinct understanding of and vision for Tor--he reckons with Tor's complicated, changing relationship with contemporary US empire. Ultimately, the book reveals how different groups of users have repurposed Tor and built new technologies and worlds of their own around it, with profound implications for the future of the Internet.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

《Tor:從暗網到隱私未來》是一本關於Tor的傳記,探討了這個文化和技術的歷史,以及它在互聯網核心的權力、隱私和全球政治中的角色。

Tor是數字時代最重要且最被誤解的技術之一,最為人所知的是作為所謂暗網基礎設施的支撐。但是,關於Tor的真正「暗網」,在這本書中被揭示出來:這個複雜且有爭議的基礎設施的起源、存在的原因以及它如何以微妙而密切的方式與全球權力相關聯。在《Tor:從暗網到隱私未來》中,Ben Collier寫了一本關於Tor的傳記,探討了互聯網最深處的權力、隱私、政治和帝國的文化和技術歷史。

Tor的故事始於1990年代,當時它由美國海軍研究實驗室創建,融合了不同的文化世界。Collier在深入訪談設計師、開發人員、活動家和用戶的基礎上,並借助二十年的郵件列表、設計文件、報導和法律文件,追溯了Tor從早期到目前在全球數字權力前線運作的演變,包括美國軍方科學家與一群名為Cypherpunks的自由駭客之間的奇特合作。Collier描述了Tor社群中三個不同文化的興衰:工程師、維護者和活動家,每個人對Tor都有獨特的理解和願景,並思考了Tor與當代美國帝國之間複雜而不斷變化的關係。最終,這本書揭示了不同用戶群體如何重新運用Tor並圍繞它建立新的技術和世界,對互聯網的未來產生深遠影響。

作者簡介

Ben Collier is Lecturer in Digital Methods in the Department of Science, Technology, and Innovation Studies at the School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Ben Collier是愛丁堡大學社會與政治科學學院科學、技術和創新研究系的數位方法講師。