Privacy on the line : the politics of wiretapping and encryption / Whitfield Diffie, Susan Landau.
2007
621.39.B6120 D569
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621.39.B6120 D569
Title
Privacy on the line : the politics of wiretapping and encryption / Whitfield Diffie, Susan Landau.
Language
English
Author
Diffie, Whitfield.
Added Author
Landau, Susan Eva.
Edition
Updated and expanded ed.
Imprint
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2007.
Description
xvii, 472 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Summary
[Publisher description] Telecommunication has never been perfectly secure. The Cold War culture of recording devices in telephone receivers and bugged embassy offices has been succeeded by a post-9/11 world of NSA wiretaps and demands for data retention. Although the 1990s battle for individual and commercial freedom to use cryptography was won, growth in the use of cryptography has been slow. Meanwhile, regulations requiring that the computer and communication industries build spying into their systems for government convenience have increased rapidly. The application of the 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act has expanded beyond the intent of Congress to apply to voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and other modern data services; attempts are being made to require ISPs to retain their data for years in case the government wants it; and data mining techniques developed for commercial marketing applications are being applied to widespread surveillance of the population. In Privacy on the Line, Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau strip away the hype surrounding the policy debate over privacy to examine the national security, law enforcement, commercial, and civil liberties issues. They discuss the social function of privacy, how it underlies a democratic society, and what happens when it is lost. This updated and expanded edition revises their original--and prescient--discussions of both policy and technology in light of recent controversies over NSA spying and other government threats to communications privacy.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [401]-443) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Cryptography
Cryptography and public policy
National security
Law enforcement
Privacy : protections and threats
Wiretapping
Communications in the 1990s
Cryptography in the 1990s
And then it all changed
Après le déluge.
Cryptography and public policy
National security
Law enforcement
Privacy : protections and threats
Wiretapping
Communications in the 1990s
Cryptography in the 1990s
And then it all changed
Après le déluge.
ISBN
9780262042406 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0262042401 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0262042401 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Location
Library Reading Room 621.39.B6120 D569
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