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Title: Recommended? Click the 'Back' button.
Review: I can hardly believe this book is recommended by the "Cyberculture Editor". It reads as though it reasearched by watching TV news programs and talk shows. Guisnel has a penchant for bombast and egaggeration: he makes no effort to back up a number of nebulous-yet-sweeping claims about the level of monitoring of the internet by security organizations (or a bunch of other claims, for that matter). Publishing a bunch of quotes don't prove jack.In one glaringly ignorant sentence he infers that published bomb-recipies are a phenomenon perpetrated solely by right-wing militia groups. Huh. On the subject of internet policing he wanders from: the idea that governments should not, to the idea that the internet is a "self-policing nirvana", to wondering how laws to prevent nazis from having websites could be enforced. If you are a regular study of this topic you will not find anything new here. Despite the intruiging title, this guy has nothing to say.
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