The Best Obfuscation Books of All Time

How we can evade, protest, and sabotage today's pervasive digital surveillance by deploying more data, not less—and why we should.With Obfuscation, Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum mean to start a revolution. They are calling us not to the barricades but to our computers, offering us ways to fight today's pervasive digital surveillance—the collection of our data by governments, corporations, advertisers, and hackers.

To the toolkit of privacy protecting techniques and projects, they propose adding obfuscation: the deliberate use of ambiguous, confusing, or misleading information to interfere with surveillance and data collection projects. Brunton and Nissenbaum provide tools and a rationale for evasion, noncompliance, refusal, even sabotage—especially for average users, those of us not in a position to opt out or exert control over data about ourselves. Obfuscation will teach users to push back, software developers to keep their user data safe, and policy makers to gather data without misusing it. Brunton and Nissenbaum present a guide to the forms and formats that obfuscation has taken and explain how to craft its implementation to suit the goal and the adversary. They describe a series of historical and contemporary examples, including radar chaff deployed by World War II pilots, Twitter bots that hobbled the social media strategy of popular protest movements, and software that can camouflage users' search queries and stymie online advertising. They go on to consider obfuscation in more general terms, discussing why obfuscation is necessary, whether it is justified, how it works, and how it can be integrated with other privacy practices and technologies.

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The oldest surviving photograph is not ‘The view from the window at le gras’ by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce from 1826 or 27! It is not even close to being the oldest photograph, surviving or otherwise. In reality, the medium of Photography ‘Drawing with light’ sitting within our scattered history has existed for human eternity.

Through wide-ranging research and personal practice, over two years, investigations have led me to see past the mainstream, academic narratives pertaining to art history and in particular Photography’s conception in the 1820s by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, and enabled me to discover completely different points of origin in history for photographic practice. Through research and experimental practice, I have proven that Photography, was definitely understood and in use throughout what we refer to as the Medieval and Renaissance periods of Scalarian history. Alongside uncovering these photographic origins, following on from the works of David Hockney, Dr Nicholas Allen, researchers Picknet and Prince and others, my research became subject to wider discoveries which made me question the validity of the entirety of what we are taught is history. The result of this is my making some astounding discoveries, and in turn suggestions as to the truth of our history. Amongst these are my proposal of the possibility of a thousand years of none existent dark ages. I question the narratives and validity of much of Renaissance art and suggest many European historical polymaths are actually pseudo characters. The book pays a huge amount of attention to the period of the eighteen hundreds and discovers a time of huge turmoil around the world, and the impossible feats, which are attributed to this period in time, not least Photography and technology. These subjects and others, I suggest, have all had a direct influence on the obfuscation of Photography and our wider history. Fundamentally, I suggest that history is not what are led to believe, and I have proven in this book there are photographs, some of which are almost a millennium in age (In Scaligerian Chronology) which remain visible and in some cases hidden, to this day. Although this book is written in a style, which you would term academic, with traditional citations and references, during my research, I discovered that much of academia has perpetuated many myths around both photography and our wider history, and in turn has played the leading role in their direct obfuscation. This has led me to become extremely sceptical when confronting academic texts, certainly pertaining to art and history. I have Master of the Arts degree in Photography, and I am published academic, yet, so profoundly have been these realisations concerning academia, they have led me to detach myself from the pursuit of further academic recognition. The claims, which I make in this book, may appear astounding to some readers. Many may consider this text to be at least, in part, esoteric. However, as I state in the book, if this allows others to see past mainstream narratives and find actual truths, then I am happy for my work to be labelled as such. You will notice that along with my conclusions and suggestions, I also pose many more questions than I propose answers. It is my hope that others, will be inspired and intrigued by my discoveries and claims, and undertake their own research into our actual history, to find answers and reach conclusions where I have so far, been unable.