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The Red Web : The Struggle Between Russia's Digital Dictators And The New Online Revolutionaries
Paperback Edition: 1
Half of Russia's email traffic passes through an ordinary-looking building in an otherwise residential district of Moscow. On the eighth floor, in here 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.
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Pages : 400
Publisher : Public Affairs
Publication date : 2017-08-01
Subjects: Non-fiction, Humanities, Politics, Political Science & Theory