Brief
Imagine a spy.
Did you think of the Ian Fleming type: suave, suited, half-cut on Martinis? Or the John Le Carre type: trench coats, Kalashnikovs, and microfiche? Either way, chances are your first thought wasn't of an anonymous coder in an anonymous office, quietly tapping out strings of symbols and semi-colons.
The spying game has come a long, long way since the Cold War. But, nevertheless as a society and as individuals, we have never been more intensely surveilled. From online ads that follow us around the internet, to government-backed acts of billion-dollar IP theft, the internet has created...