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The Resource The red web : the struggle between Russia's digital dictators and the new online revolutionaries, Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan

The red web : the struggle between Russia's digital dictators and the new online revolutionaries, Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan

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On the eighth floor of an ordinary-looking building in an otherwise residential district of southwest Moscow, in a room occupied by the Federal Security Service (FSB), is a box the size of a VHS player marked SORM. The Russian government's front line in the battle for the future of the Internet, SORM is the world's most intrusive listening device, monitoring e-mails, Internet usage, Skype, and all social networks. But for every hacker subcontracted by the FSB to interfere with Russia's antagonists abroad -- such as those who, in a massive denial-of-service attack, overwhelmed the entire Internet in neighboring Estonia -- there is a radical or an opportunist who is using the web to chip away at the power of the state at home. Drawing from scores of interviews personally conducted with numerous prominent officials in the Ministry of Communications and web-savvy activists challenging the state, Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan peel back the history of advanced surveillance systems in Russia. From research laboratories in Soviet-era labor camps, to the legalization of government monitoring of all telephone and Internet communications in the 1990s, to the present day, their investigation into the Kremlin's massive online-surveillance state exposes just how easily a free global exchange can be coerced into becoming a tool of repression and geopolitical warfare
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eng
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First edition.
Extent
xi, 370 pages
Contents
  • The prison of information
  • The first connection
  • Merlin's tower
  • The black box
  • The coming of Putin
  • Internet rising
  • Revolt of the wired
  • Putin strikes back
  • "We just come up with the hardware"
  • The Snowden affair
  • Putin's overseas offensive
  • Watch your back
  • The big red button
  • Moscow's long shadow
  • Information runs free
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9781610395731
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The red web : the struggle between Russia's digital dictators and the new online revolutionaries
Title
The red web
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the struggle between Russia's digital dictators and the new online revolutionaries
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Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan
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Language
eng
Summary
On the eighth floor of an ordinary-looking building in an otherwise residential district of southwest Moscow, in a room occupied by the Federal Security Service (FSB), is a box the size of a VHS player marked SORM. The Russian government's front line in the battle for the future of the Internet, SORM is the world's most intrusive listening device, monitoring e-mails, Internet usage, Skype, and all social networks. But for every hacker subcontracted by the FSB to interfere with Russia's antagonists abroad -- such as those who, in a massive denial-of-service attack, overwhelmed the entire Internet in neighboring Estonia -- there is a radical or an opportunist who is using the web to chip away at the power of the state at home. Drawing from scores of interviews personally conducted with numerous prominent officials in the Ministry of Communications and web-savvy activists challenging the state, Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan peel back the history of advanced surveillance systems in Russia. From research laboratories in Soviet-era labor camps, to the legalization of government monitoring of all telephone and Internet communications in the 1990s, to the present day, their investigation into the Kremlin's massive online-surveillance state exposes just how easily a free global exchange can be coerced into becoming a tool of repression and geopolitical warfare
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Soldatov, Andreĭ
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303.48/330947
Index
index present
LC call number
JN6695.A55
LC item number
A859 2015
Literary form
non fiction
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Borogan, I.
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  • Internet
  • Information society
  • Internet
  • Electronic surveillance
  • Freedom of information
  • Russia (Federation)
  • Electronic surveillance
  • Freedom of information
  • Information society
  • Internet
  • Internet
  • Politics and government
  • Russia (Federation)
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The red web : the struggle between Russia's digital dictators and the new online revolutionaries, Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-350) and index
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Contents
The prison of information -- The first connection -- Merlin's tower -- The black box -- The coming of Putin -- Internet rising -- Revolt of the wired -- Putin strikes back -- "We just come up with the hardware" -- The Snowden affair -- Putin's overseas offensive -- Watch your back -- The big red button -- Moscow's long shadow -- Information runs free
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ocn914136614
Dimensions
25 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
xi, 370 pages
Isbn
9781610395731
Lccn
2015015850
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other control number
40025221102
Label
The red web : the struggle between Russia's digital dictators and the new online revolutionaries, Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-350) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
The prison of information -- The first connection -- Merlin's tower -- The black box -- The coming of Putin -- Internet rising -- Revolt of the wired -- Putin strikes back -- "We just come up with the hardware" -- The Snowden affair -- Putin's overseas offensive -- Watch your back -- The big red button -- Moscow's long shadow -- Information runs free
Control code
ocn914136614
Dimensions
25 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
xi, 370 pages
Isbn
9781610395731
Lccn
2015015850
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other control number
40025221102

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