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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792050903321

Autore

Landau Susan Eva

Titolo

Surveillance or security? : the risks posed by new wiretapping technologies / / Susan Landau

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2010

ISBN

0-262-29491-5

1-299-28426-4

0-262-29558-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (400 p.)

Disciplina

363.25/2

Soggetti

Telecommunication - Security measures - United States

Wiretapping - United States

Data encryption (Computer science) - Government policy - United States

Electronic surveillance - Political aspects - United States

Computer crimes - Risk assessment - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-344) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

In this book, the author argues that in embarking on an unprecedented effort to build surveillance capabilities deeply into communications infrastructure, the U.S. government is opting for short-term security and creating dangerous long-term risks. Landau describes what makes communications security hard, warrantless wiretapping and the role of electronic surveillance in the war on terror, the economic threats posed by electronic spying, and the risks created by embedding wiretapping into communications networks. How can we get communications security right? Landau offers a set of principles to govern wiretap policy that will allow us to protect our national security as well as our freedom.