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Crypto Wars - The Fight for Privacy in the Digital Age: A Political History of Digital Encryption (Paperback)
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Crypto Wars - The Fight for Privacy in the Digital Age: A Political History of Digital Encryption (Paperback)
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The crypto wars have raged for half a century. In the 1970s,
digital privacy activists prophesied the emergence of an Orwellian
State, made possible by computer-mediated mass surveillance. The
antidote: digital encryption. The U.S. government warned encryption
would not only prevent surveillance of law-abiding citizens, but of
criminals, terrorists, and foreign spies, ushering in a rival
dystopian future. Both parties fought to defend the citizenry from
what they believed the most perilous threats. The government tried
to control encryption to preserve its surveillance capabilities;
privacy activists armed citizens with cryptographic tools and
challenged encryption regulations in the courts. No clear victor
has emerged from the crypto wars. Governments have failed to forge
a framework to govern the, at times conflicting, civil liberties of
privacy and security in the digital age-an age when such liberties
have an outsized influence on the citizen-State power balance.
Solving this problem is more urgent than ever. Digital privacy will
be one of the most important factors in how we architect
twenty-first century societies-its management is paramount to our
stewardship of democracy for future generations. We must elevate
the quality of debate on cryptography, on how we govern security
and privacy in our technology-infused world. Failure to end the
crypto wars will result in societies sleepwalking into a future
where the citizen-State power balance is determined by a
twentieth-century status quo unfit for this century, endangering
both our privacy and security. This book provides a history of the
crypto wars, with the hope its chronicling sets a foundation for
peace.
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