Obfuscation will teach users to push back software developers to keep their user data safe and policy makers to gather data without misusing it brunton and nissenbaum present a guide to the forms and formats that obfuscation has taken and explain how to craft its implementation to suit the goal and the adversary they describe a series of . Obfuscation will teach users to push back software developers to keep their user data safe and policy makers to gather data without misusing it brunton and nissenbaum present a guide to the forms and formats that obfuscation has taken and explain how to craft its implementation to suit the goal and the adversary. It is split into two parts an analysis of the possible applications of obfuscation and obfuscation as a strategy for privacy protection the ethical issues obfuscation raises and salient questions to ask of any obfuscation project the authors took care to emphasize that in addition to privacy it is not a replacement for one or all of the tools which we already rely on. With obfuscation finn brunton and helen nissenbaum mean to start a revolution they are calling us not to the barricades but to our computers offering us ways to fight todays pervasive digital surveillance the collection of our data by governments corporations advertisers and hackers to the toolkit of privacy protecting techniques and projects they propose adding obfuscation the . Obfuscation will teach users to push back software developers to keep their user data safe and policy makers to gather data without misusing it brunton and nissenbaum present a guide to the forms and formats that obfuscation has taken and explain how to craft its implementation to suit the goal and the adversary they describe a series of