Surveillance or security?
Subtitle: the risks posed by new wiretapping technologies
By: Susan Landau
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9780262015301; 9780262518741
Subjects: Government policy; Telecommunication; Electronic surveillance; Risk assessment; Computer crimes; Data encryption (Computer science); Security measures; Wiretapping
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-344) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Communication networks and their architectures; title: Securing the Internet is difficult; title: Wiretaps and the law; title: The effectiveness of wiretapping; title: Evolving communications technologies; title: Who are the intruders? what are they targeting?; title: Security risks arising from wiretapping technology; title: Policy risks arising from wiretapping; title: Communication during crisis; title: Getting communications security right; title: Epilogue.