Privacy on the Line – The Politics of Wiretapping & Encryption: Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption - Hardcover

Diffie, Whitfield

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262041677 ISBN 13: 9780262041676

Publisher: MIT Press, 1998

Synopsis

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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..."[A] wise, meticulously researched and, given the bureaucratic language of policy making, surprisingly readable guide." -- London Review of Books ""Privacy on the Line." . . should be required reading for any computing student at any level..."-- Harold Thimbleby, New Scientist ..." A wise, meticulously researched and, given the bureaucratic language of policy making, surprisingly readable guide."-- London Review of Books " "Privacy on the Line," . . should be required reading for any computing student at any level..." -- Harold Thimbleby, New Scientist " ...[A] wise, meticulously researched and, given the bureaucratic language of policy making, surprisingly readable guide." -- London Review of Books & quot; ...[A] wise, meticulously researched and, given the bureaucratic language of policy making, surprisingly readable guide.& quot; -- London Review of Books & quot; Privacy on the Line . . . should be required reading for any computing student at any level...& quot; -- Harold Thimbleby, New Scientist ""Privacy on the Line," . . should be required reading for any computing student at any level..." -- Harold Thimbleby, "New Scientist" .,."[A] wise, meticulously researched and, given the bureaucratic language of policy making, surprisingly readable guide." -- "London Review of Books" " ."..[A] wise, meticulously researched and, given the bureaucratic language of policy making, surprisingly readable guide."-- "London Review of Books" ""Privacy on the Line". . . should be required reading for any computing student at any level..."-- Harold Thimbleby, "New Scientist"

Edition details

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262041677
• ISBN 13: 9780262041676
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352