This Machine Kills Secrets is a 2012 book by Andy Greenberg[1] about "how WikiLeakers, cypherpunks, and hacktivists aim to free the world's information.

"[2] The book looks at "a revolutionary protest movement bent not on stealing information, but on building a tool that inexorably coaxes it out, a technology that slips inside of institutions and levels their defenses like a Trojan horse of cryptographic software and silicon.

"[2] The interview with Julian Assange[3] which served as a launching point for the book was published by Forbes, and was read nearly a million times.

[2] The book looks at the history of "politically motivated information leaks ... the lives and work of numerous cryptographers, hackers and whistleblowers",[2] including WikiLeaks and the people involved.

[4] It talks about WikiLeaks being modeled on Nicolas Bourbaki, and how it could be infiltrated by informers, harassed or spied on.