Open Secrecy

"This is a pathbreaking book. It offers an original perspective for viewing seemingly unrelated empirical social phenomena--the online drug trade, internet censorship circumvention, and the digital far right--giving new insights into the tension and struggle between two opposing forces of society: individual rights and liberty on the one hand and state control and surveillance on the other."--Tim Liao, Professor and Chair of Sociology, Stony Brook University "As technology continues to advance, books on cybercrime often become outdated even before being published. Isak Ladegaard's framework of 'open secrecy' transcends these transformations to unite various covert phenomena, drawing on a treasure trove of data that could take an entire team of computer and social scientists to compile."--Marie Ouellet, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Georgia State University