Human rights lawyer & activist and UBC adjunct professor Maureen Webb, who teaches national security law, rehabilitates hackers' bad reputations in Coding Democracy: How Hackers are Disrupting Power, Surveillance, and Authoritarianism (MIT $39.95). She argues that hackers can be vital disruptors.

BOOKS

Coding Democracy: How Hackers are Disrupting Power, Surveillance, and Authoritarianism (MIT Press 2020) $39.95 978-0-262-04355-7

Illusions of Security: Global Surveillance and Democracy in the Post -9/11 World (City Lights 2007) $16.95 978-0872864764

[BCBW 2020]