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Loading... The Red Web: The Struggle Between Russia’s Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries (2015)by Andreĭ Soldatov, Irina Borogan
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Отдельные этапы введения цензуры и слежки в Рунете в основном пользователям известны и с той или иной степенью вялости опротестованы в Facebook или ЖЖ. Однако в этой книге, опубликованной на Западе еще в прошлом году, звенья цепи выстраиваются кольцами боа констриктора. Становится видно, как за всеми резонансными, но, казалось бы, разрозненными событиями последних лет — «арабской весной», прилетом Сноудена в Россию, Майданом, Олимпиадой в Сочи — следовала стремительная реакция, итогом которой стали неслыханные возможности для цензуры и вторжения силовиков в частную жизнь. Поводы для оптимизма авторы все-таки находят: США и Европа не допустили лоббируемого Россией распила интернета на «суверенные национальные сегменты», а контролировать всех интернет-пользователей невозможно: именно солдаты своими селфи во «ВКонтакте» сделали куда больше для разоблачения кремлевской лжи о войне, чем журналисты и активисты. Russia -- our ugly, upside down, topsy turvy mirror. Take warning. This feels so timely, even though this edition had to be updated after the election. My tax return was held up by the government because my identity had potentially been hacked after the City of Atlanta was held hostage by ransomware. That wanted 50,000$ in Bitcoin. Still not sure if they paid or not, but just a forever reminder that I live behind weak walls and my nations enemies are slower to get there, but faster and crueler in their reaction. I'm not a psychic but I feel stirrings of the future. Do you know how to speak Russian? Can you build radios? I might learn. Is contained inDistinctions
A Library Journal Best Book of 2015 A NPR Great Read of 2015 The Internet in Russia is either the most efficient totalitarian tool or the device by which totalitarianism will be overthrown. Perhaps both. 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 incisive and alarming 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. Dissidents, oligarchs, and some of the world's most dangerous hackers collide in the uniquely Russian virtual world of The Red Web. No library descriptions found. |
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