Suelette Dreyfus

Suelette Dreyfus is an Australian journalist and author. She's Media Studies at the University of Melbourne. Her research interests are there among other whistleblowing, computer security and hacking.

Life and work

Suelette Dreyfus lived in the UK, the USA and Australia. She earned a BA in 1987 at New York's Barnard College, Columbia University, where she received the Teichmann Prize for Excellent and original writing, and in 1998 a Ph.D. in philosophy at Monash University. She is a member of the Royal Society of Victoria since 2001.

Dreyfus worked, among other things, as a court reporter for Australian newspapers such as The Age, the British Independent and the Australian radio program Late Night Live. Together with Julian Assange, she was involved in the late 1990s in the development of cryptography software Rubber Hose. 2001, Dreyfus co-producer of the episode Hackers of the documentary television series Frontline, which is broadcast by the American broadcasting network PBS and 2003 Australian documentary film "In the Realm of the Hackers", which describes the two Hacker " Electron " and " Phoenix " and Dreyfus ' Underground book is based.

Suelette Dreyfus distribution to the public any images that represent them identifiable. In an interview in 2011 and added the final chapter of Underground it emphasizes the role of technological possibilities for monitoring of citizens of democratic states.

Underground

Publications (selection)

  • Suelette Dreyfus: The quiet revolution. In: The UNESCO courier. No. 3, 2001, pp. 27-28. Online version
  • Suelette Dreyfus: Organizational Culture and Organizational Impacts of Information Systems: A Review of the Empirical Literature. In: Australasia Conference on Information Systems (Conference Publication). , 2010.
  • Suelette Dreyfus, Julian Assange: Underground: Tales of hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic frontier. Mandarin, Kew, Australia, 1997, ISBN 1-86330-595-5. Online version
  • Suelette Dreyfus, Julian Assange: Underground: Tales of hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic frontier. Random House, Australia, 2011, ISBN 9,781,742,752,020th
  • Suelette Dreyfus, Julian Assange: Underground. The history of the early hacker elite. Fact novel. Haffmans & Tolkemitt, Berlin 2011 ( Original title: Underground: Tales of hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic frontier ), ISBN 978-3-942989-00-8.

German -language reviews of Underground

  • Book review in Der Spiegel 13/2011
  • Review at Spiegel Online
  • Review at FAZ.net
  • Review at World Online
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