bWho Are The Cypherpunks pThis is the unauthorized telling of the revolutionary cryptography story behind the motion picture iThe Fifth Estate iin theatres this October, and iWe Steal Secrets The Story of Wikileaksi, a documentary out now.b pWikiLeaks brought to light a new form of whistleblowing, using powerful cryptographic code to hide leakers' identities while they spill the private data of government agencies and corporations. But that technology has been evolving for decades in the hands of hackers and radical activists, from the libertarian enclaves of Northern California to Berlin to the Balkans. And the secret-killing machine continues to evolve beyond WikiLeaks, as a movement of hacktivists aims to obliterate the world's institutional secrecy. piForbes ijournalist Andy Greenberg has traced its shadowy history from the cryptography revolution of the 1970s to Wikileaks founding hacker Julian Assange, Anonymous, and beyond. pThis is the story of the code and the characters--idea