Is the Internet a vehicle for democracy and progress or a surveillance tool? Archives don't cheat: States have long spied on their citizens with broad support from the IT industry. Investigative journalist Yasha Levin studied the history of the relationship between IT giants and American intelligence - from the first uses of network technologies during the Vietnam War to the sinister cooperation of Google, Amazon, Facebook and other companies with the authorities. How secure are our personal data, correspondence and search history? How is the Tor proxy system related to the US National Security Agency? Why did 1970s students oppose the network and who figured out how to whitewash its reputation? In whose interests are Snowden and Assange acting? Who is protecting whom: CIA Google or vice versa? The book "The Internet as a Weapon" opens your eyes to the real history of Silicon Valley, which is customary to hide.