Bibliograph

The Red Web, The Struggle Between Russia's Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries, Andrei Soldatov

Type

Label

The Red Web, The Struggle Between Russia's Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries, Andrei Soldatov

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Red Web

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

918622495

Responsibility statement

Andrei Soldatov

Sub title

The Struggle Between Russia's Digital Dictators and the New Online Revolutionaries

Summary

Half of Russia's email traffic passes through an ordinary-looking building in an otherwise residential district of South West Moscow. On the eighth floor, in here a room occupied by the FSB, the successor organization 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 scores of interviews personally conducted with numerous p

Table Of Contents

PART 1; 1. The Prison of Information; 2. The First Connection; 3. Merlin's Tower; 4. The Black Box; 5. The Coming of Putin; 6. Internet Rising; 7. Revolt of the Wired; 8. Putin Strikes Back; 9. "We Just Come Up with the Hardware"; PART 2; 10. The Snowden Affair; 11. Putin's Overseas Offensive; 12. Watch Your Back; 13. The Big Red Button; 14. Moscow's Long Shadow; 15. Information Runs Free; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index; About the Authors; Colophon

Target audience

adult

Classification

Contributor