Surveillance Valley on sale today. Read about the internet's origins as a counterinsurgency weapon: an early warning radar system for human societies — from the Vietnam War to the Tor Project. surveillancevalley.com/buy

From the legendary historian Stuart Ewen: "Defying common Internet tropes that present a battle between valiant and independent rebels versus omnipresent state and corporate powers, no one comes out of this book looking clean." pic.twitter.com/VTxIBC2vUR

Fans of the Tor Project and other USG-funded privacy tech might want to pick up a copy — or actually, you probably don't. It won't give comfort to your myths. Tor would never disclose possible security weaknesses to the federal government before telling its users, right? pic.twitter.com/ZiqlSTBlCC

"In this fast-paced, myth-busting expose, Yasha Levine documents how a collection of spooks, cybernetic fanatics and libertarian oligarchs have exploited the internet to promote regime change abroad and establish a totalistic spying network at home." — @MaxBlumenthal pic.twitter.com/VDFpvcEPy9

Hell yeah. Surveillance Valley is on the front page of @thebafflermag. It's an honor! thebaffler.com/latest/oakland… (It's an excerpt from the prologue.) pic.twitter.com/L213BRLUh1

"Some even dreamed of creating a sort of early warning radar for human societies: a networked computer system that watched for social and political threats and intercepted them in much the same way that traditional radar did for hostile aircraft." pic.twitter.com/65rGoqUaZ4