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title: "Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet Hardcover – February 6, 2018"
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# Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet Hardcover – February 6, 2018

**Brand:** yasha levine
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Required reading for all internet users
  

*by D***E on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 28, 2022*

Yasha Levine traces the history of the development of the internet starting as a government counter-insurgency tool to a full-blown surveillance state with the complicity of big tech companies. Also the fake "privacy" tools like Tor pushed to give users a false sense of security while being spied on all the same.

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    Eye-opening
  

*by M***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 12, 2022*

This book provides a cogent and a valuable study of what lurks behind the shiny new toys modern telecommunications have given us.

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    Gripping read, well researched alternate history of the internet.
  

*by R***M on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 8, 2018*

People are starting to see the internet as a failed utopia - but the story Yasha tells as he draws a history of the internet is that there was never a utopia.Those who want to dismiss the book will sneer that everyone knows the military history of the internet - in the same way that everyone knows that Tor is funded by the US military establishment, and that this is somehow irrelevant.But if you read the book you will find a well researched counter narrative - a third version of story most people don't know - the thinking within DARPA that was about counter insurgency, asymmetrical war, and surveillance.Previously untold stories, like the privatization of the internet (that warrant multiple volumes of discussion in their own right) form the better part of a chapter mid way through this book - a critical narrative when you consider that wealthy internet moguls are our modern day railroad barons, and their success is based largely on public investment.Anyone who has a developed understanding of imperialism, and the US as a modern imperialist power, will find the chapters on Tor and the crypto movement particularly entertaining - cyber libertarians who rail against the state, while cashing state department checks and thinking they are smart ones, meanwhile being used as a part of a soft power regime change strategy.

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