Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who used the web to promote freedom, has now published a book which defines the web as "the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen."

Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the internet is the title of the book and its introduction was written in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where Assange has been seeking to avoid extradition to Sweden to face sexual assault claims during five months.

The 192-page boo...