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Obfuscation

By: Finn Brunton, Helen Nissenbaum
Narrated by: Dana Hickox
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With Obfuscation, Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum mean to start a revolution. They are calling us not to the barricades but to our computers, offering us ways to fight today's pervasive digital surveillance - the collection of our data by governments, corporations, advertisers, and hackers. To the toolkit of privacy-protecting techniques and projects they propose adding obfuscation: the deliberate use of ambiguous, confusing, or misleading information to interfere with surveillance and data-collection projects.

Brunton and Nissenbaum provide tools and a rationale for evasion, noncompliance, refusal, even sabotage - especially for average users, those of us not in a position to opt out or exert control over data about ourselves. Obfuscation will teach users to push back, software developers to keep their user data safe, and policy makers to gather data without misusing it.

Brunton and Nissenbaum present a guide to the forms and formats that obfuscation has taken and explain how to craft its implementation to suit the goal and the adversary. They describe a series of historical and contemporary examples, including radar chaff deployed by World War II pilots, Twitter bots that hobbled the social media strategy of popular protest movements, and software that can camouflage users' search queries and stymie online advertising. They go on to consider obfuscation in more general terms, discussing why obfuscation is necessary, whether it is justified, how it works, and how it can be integrated with other privacy practices and technologies.

©2015 Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum (P)2015 Gildan Media LLC
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Very Strange Narration

What disappointed you about Obfuscation?

Strangely, the narrator badly mispronounces the word "obfuscation." I thought I would just ignore it, but the word obfuscation is used very frequently, at least at the beginning of the book. Additionally, many derivations of the word are used, such as "obfuscatory." The narrator consistently mispronounces these as well. I really don't know how this could have happened. Ultimately, I found it so distracting that I had to stop listening after about an hour.

Otherwise the narration seems normal. The content of the book still seems interesting to me, so I may read the print version.

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