The red web : the Kremlin's wars on the internet
Soldatov, Andreĭ2017
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Half of Russia's email traffic passes through an ordinary-looking building in an otherwise residential district of Moscow. On the eighth floor, in a room occupied by the FSB, the successor organisation to the KGB, is a box the size of a VHS player, marked SORM. SORM once intercepted just phone calls. Now it monitors emails, Internet usage, Skype, and all social networks. It is the world's most intrusive listening device, and it is the Russian Government's front line for the battle of the future of the Internet. Drawn from sources 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's fearless investigative reporting in The Red Web is both harrowing and alarming.
Main title:
The red web : the Kremlin's wars on the internet / Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan.
Author:
Soldatov, Andreĭ, authorBorogan, I. (Irina), author
Edition:
First edition.
Imprint:
New York : PublicAffairs, 2017.
Collation:
xi, 400 pages ; 21 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2015.Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9781610399579 (pbk)
Dewey class:
303.48330947
LC class:
JN6695.A55
Language:
English
Subject:
Internet -- Political aspects -- Russia (Federation)Information society -- Political aspects -- Russia (Federation)Internet -- Access control -- Russia (Federation)Electronic surveillance -- Russia (Federation)Freedom of information -- Russia (Federation)Russia (Federation) -- Politics and government -- 1991-Media Studies
BRN:
1985930