Privacy on the Line
Subtitle: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: February 26, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780262541008
Subjects: Central government policies; Data security & data encryption; Media, information & communication industries; Police & security services; Privacy & data protection; Computers; Politics / Current Events; Computer Books: General; USA; Communications; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights; Telecommunications; Computers / Information Theory; Computer Science
First sentence: In the early nineteenth century it took six weeks for the British government to send a message from London to its representative in Delhi.