The Dangers of Surveillance

Two sides of the same coin assesses the evolution of online mass surveillance and explores how such efforts have inspired several internet-based innovations. My project implements a causes and consequences sequence structuring content into two fundamental sections that communicate the social, legal, political and technological themes surrounding the included topics. The first section looks at the Cypherpunks; a computer enthusiast group from the 1980’s/1990’s and adopts a distrustful portrayal of online surveillance efforts by agencies such as the NSA, GCSB and the Five Eyes.The publication comes full circle in the second section by examining the relationship that these harmful surveillance efforts have with infamous internet-based innovations of the 2000’s such as TOR, Bitcoin, Silk Road, PGP, Wikileaks and Mega.