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100 1 _aFitsanakis, Joseph.
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245 1 0 _aRedesigning Wiretapping
_h[electronic resource] :
_bThe Digitization of Communications Interception /
_cby Joseph Fitsanakis.
250 _a1st ed. 2020.
264 1 _aCham :
_bSpringer International Publishing :
_bImprint: Springer,
_c2020.
300 _aIX, 195 p. 1 illus.
_bonline resource.
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aHistory of Information Security,
_x2662-7566
505 0 _aIntroduction -- The Context -- The Government and Telecommunications: A Complex History -- The Interception of Communications in Historical Context -- The Techniques of Communications Interception -- The Views of the Negotiators -- The Trajectories of Communications Interception -- Epilogue: Surveillance in the Information Society.
520 _aThis book tells the story of government-sponsored wiretapping in Britain and the United States from the rise of telephony in the 1870s until the terrorist attacks of 9/11. It pays particular attention to the 1990s, which marked one of the most dramatic turns in the history of telecommunications interception. During that time, fiber optic and satellite networks rapidly replaced the copper-based analogue telephone system that had remained virtually unchanged since the 1870s. That remarkable technological advance facilitated the rise of the networked home computer, cellular telephony, and the Internet, and users hailed the dawn of the digital information age. However, security agencies such as the FBI and MI5 were concerned. Since the emergence of telegraphy in the 1830s, security services could intercept private messages using wiretaps, and this was facilitated by some of the world's largest telecommunications monopolies such as AT&T in the US and British Telecomin the UK. The new, digital networks were incompatible with traditional wiretap technology. To make things more complicated for the security services, these monopolies had been privatized and broken up into smaller companies during the 1980s, and in the new deregulated landscape the agencies had to seek assistance from thousands of startup companies that were often unwilling to help. So for the first time in history, technological and institutional changes posed a threat to the security services’ wiretapping activities, and government officials in Washington and London acted quickly to protect their ability to spy, they sought to force the industry to change the very architecture of the digital telecommunications network. This book describes in detail the tense negotiations between governments, the telecommunications industry, and civil liberties groups during an unprecedented moment in history when the above security agencies were unable to wiretap. Itreveals for the first time the thoughts of some of the protagonists in these crucial negotiations, and explains why their outcome may have forever altered the trajectory of our information society.
650 0 _aData protection.
650 0 _aTechnology.
650 0 _aHistory.
650 0 _aCriminology.
650 0 _aSecurity systems.
650 1 4 _aData and Information Security.
650 2 4 _aHistory of Technology.
650 2 4 _aCriminology.
650 2 4 _aSecurity Science and Technology.
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