Privacy on the line the politics of wiretapping and encryption

• Main Author: Diffie, Whitfield.
• Other Authors: Landau, Susan Eva.
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT Press, 2010.
• Edition: Updated and expanded ed.
• Subjects: Data encryption (Computer science) > Law and legislation > United States.; Electronic intelligence > United States.; Electronic surveillance > Political aspects > United States.; Privacy, Right of > United States.; Telecommunication > Political aspects > United States.; Wiretapping > United States.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9780262256018
• Physical Description: 1 online zdroj (xvii, 473 p.) : ill.

Telecommunication has never been perfectly secure. The Cold War culture of recording devices in telephone receivers and bugged embassy offices has been succeeded by a post-9/11 world of NSA wiretaps and demands for data retention. Although the 1990s battle for individual and commercial freedom to us...