Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption - Brossura

Diffie, Whitfield; Landau, Susan

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0262541009 ISBN 13: 9780262541008

Casa editrice: Mit Pr, 1999

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1999 IEEE-USAB Award for Distinguished Literary Contributions Furthering Public Understanding of the Profession. and Winner of the 1998 Donald McGannon Award for Social and Ethical Relevance in Communication Policy Research

Telecommunication has never been perfectly secure, as a Cold War culture of wiretaps and international spying taught us. Yet many of us still take our privacy for granted, even as we become more reliant than ever on telephones, computer networks, and electronic transactions of all kinds. Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau argue that if we are to retain the privacy that characterized face-to-face relationships in the past, we must build the means of protecting that privacy into our communication systems.

Diffie and Landau strip away the hype surrounding the policy debate 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.

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Book by Diffie Whitfield Landau Susan

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Mit Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0262541009
• ISBN 13: 9780262541008
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 352
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