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The Red Web - The Kremlin's Wars on the Internet (Paperback)
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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.
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