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Privacy on the Line: Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption Book
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Winner of the 1998 Donald McGannon Award for Social and Ethical Relevance in Communication Policy Research
"Privacy on the Line. . . should be required reading for any computing student at any level, either as a general background to the real-world impact of computing, or as a stimulating backdrop to a cryptography or communications course." -- Harold Thimbleby, New Scientist
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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- 0262541009
- 9780262541008
- Whitfield Diffie, Susan Landau
- 31 March 1999
- MIT Press
- Paperback (Book)
- 366
- New edition
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