In the book, the authors warn that the Internet has become a tool of the police state, and that the world is inadvertently heading toward a form of totalitarianism.

[2] He told Guardian journalist Decca Aitkenhead: A well-defined mathematical algorithm can encrypt something quickly, but to decrypt it would take billions of years – or trillions of dollars' worth of electricity to drive the computer.

There is no other way for our intellectual life to gain proper independence from the security guards of the world, the people who control physical reality.

[4] It is primarily a transcript of World Tomorrow episode eight, a two-part interview[5][6] between Assange, Jacob Appelbaum, Andy Müller-Maguhn, and Jérémie Zimmermann.

In the foreword, Assange said, "the Internet, our greatest tool for emancipation, has been transformed into the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen".