Surveillance or Security?: The Risks Posed by New Wiretapping Technologies

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Author:   Susan Landau (Senior Staff Privacy Analyst, Google)
Publisher:   MIT Press Ltd
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9780262015301


Pages:   400
Publication Date:   28 January 2011
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Format:   Hardback
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  • Winner of 2012 Surveillance Studies Book Prize, given by the Surveillance Studies Network 2012
  • Winner of 2012 Surveillance Studies Book Prize, given by the Surveillance Studies Network</PrizeName> 2012
  • Winner of <PrizeName>2012 Surveillance Studies Book Prize, given by the Surveillance Studies Network</PrizeName> 2012

Overview

"How, in the name of greater security, our current electronic surveillance policies are creating major security risks. Digital communications are the lifeblood of modern society. We ""meet up"" online, tweet our reactions millions of times a day, connect through social networking rather than in person. Large portions of business and commerce have moved to the Web, and much of our critical infrastructure, including the electric power grid, is controlled online. This reliance on information systems leaves us highly exposed and vulnerable to cyberattack. Despite this, U.S. law enforcement and national security policy remain firmly focused on wiretapping and surveillance. But, as cybersecurity expert Susan Landau argues in Surveillance or Security?, the old surveillance paradigms do not easily fit the new technologies. By embedding eavesdropping mechanisms into communication technology itself, we are building tools that could be turned against us and opting for short-term security and creating dangerous long-term risks. How can we get communications security right? Landau offers a set of principles to govern wiretapping policy that will allow us to protect our national security as well as our freedom."

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Author:   Susan Landau (Senior Staff Privacy Analyst, Google)
Publisher:   MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:   MIT Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.680kg
ISBN:  

9780262015301


ISBN 10:   0262015307
Pages:   400
Publication Date:   28 January 2011
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   No Longer Our Product
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Governments have been trying to control the Internet since the early 1990s, when they realized that it would change everything and they didn't understand how. Much of the 1990s was spent on the Crypto Wars, as governments tried to control surveillance online. One of the veterans, Susan Landau, gives us a perspective on where the battle lines are now and where surveillance is likely to go in the future.


Landau's well-researched writing is a superb resource for the citizen who wants to be an informed participant in the civil rights debate that is succinctly summarized in the title. Hilarie Orman IEEE Cipher An extremely important book. Landau has the remarkable talent of taking very broad issues and detailing them in a concise, yet comprehensive manner This book is the definitive text on the topic and it is a title that needs to be read. -Ben Rothke, Slashdot


Landau's well-researched writing is a superb resource for the citizen who wants to be an informed participant in the civil rights debate that is succinctly summarized in the title. Hilarie Orman IEEE Cipher An extremely important book. Landau has the remarkable talent of taking very broad issues and detailing them in a concise, yet comprehensive manner... This book is the definitive text on the topic and it is a title that needs to be read. -Ben Rothke, Slashdot


An extremely important book. Landau has the remarkable talent of taking very broad issues and detailing them in a concise, yet comprehensive manner...This book is the definitive text on the topic and it is a title that needs to be read. -Ben Rothke Landau's well-researched writing is a superb resource for the citizen who wants to be an informed participant in the civil rights debate that is succinctly summarized in the title. -Hilarie Orman, IEEE Cipher * Reviews * An extremely important book. Landau has the remarkable talent of taking very broad issues and detailing them in a concise, yet comprehensive manner...This book is the definitive text on the topic and it is a title that needs to be read. -Ben Rothke * Reviews *


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Susan Landau is Bridge Professor in the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and the School of Engineering, Department of Computer Science, at Tufts University. She has been a Senior Staff Privacy Analyst at Google, a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, and a faculty member at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Wesleyan University. Landau has been a Guggenheim fellow and a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and is a member of the Cybersecurity Hall of Fame, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.

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