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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.

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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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