{"product_id":"open-secrecy-isak-ladegaard-9780520397293","title":"Open Secrecy: How Technology Empowers the Digital Underworld","description":"\u003cb\u003eUncovering how a diverse digital underground has been liberated by \"open secrecy\"--and how police crackdowns are making it stronger.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Advances in information technology have made it easier for shadowy groups to organize collective action. Using military-grade encryption, rerouting software, and cryptocurrencies, they move through cyberspace like digital nomads, often with law enforcement and other powerful actors on their tails. This book reveals how the same technology enables these groups to communicate and collaborate in public and semipublic spaces, making them both open and secret at the same time--and efforts to stop these groups provoke countermeasures with unintended, far-reaching consequences. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Isak Ladegaard begins by taking readers inside a digital economy for banned drugs that has survived numerous police crackdowns and is still thriving, nearly fifteen years after its genesis. He then examines how, in roughly the same time period, a community of activist software developers in China and other countries has been able to maintain paths to the open internet, again despite police interventions. Finally, he explains how the American far right uses the same tools to build movements based on paranoia and hate. Timely and perceptive, \u003ci\u003eOpen Secrecy\u003c\/i\u003e helps readers understand how information technology, for better and worse, undermines state control.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Isak Ladegaard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520397290\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520397293\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/20\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 315\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Isak Ladegaard","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46372700455167,"sku":"9780520397293","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_de2ccbbf-2617-43e9-be12-26d25a9b15c2.jpg?v=1732726702","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/open-secrecy-isak-ladegaard-9780520397293","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}