书目名称 | Redesigning Wiretapping | 副标题 | The Digitization of | 编辑 | Joseph Fitsanakis | 视频video | | 概述 | Provides the only existing historical account of the political, social and technical evolution of wiretapping in the United States and Britain, from the emergence of telephony in the 1870s until the d | 丛书名称 | History of Information Security | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .This book tells the story of government-sponsored wiretapping in Britain and the United States from the rise of telephony in the 1870s until the terrorist attacks of 9/11..It pays particular attention to the 1990s, which marked one of the most dramatic turns in the history of telecommunications interception. During that time, fiber optic and satellite networks rapidly replaced the copper-based analogue telephone system that had remained virtually unchanged since the 1870s. That remarkable technological advance facilitated the rise of the networked home computer, cellular telephony, and the Internet, and users hailed the dawn of the digital information age. However, security agencies such as the FBI and MI5 were concerned. Since the emergence of telegraphy in the 1830s, security services could intercept private messages using wiretaps, and this was facilitated by some of the world‘s largest telecommunications monopolies such as AT&T in the US and British Telecom in the UK. Thenew, digital networks were incompatible with traditional wiretap technology. To make things more complicated for the security services, these monopolies had been privatized and broken up into smaller companies | 出版日期 | Book 2020 | 关键词 | Information Security; Wiretapping; Communications Interception; Telecommunications; Deregulation; Privati | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39919-1 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-39921-4 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-39919-1Series ISSN 2662-7558 Series E-ISSN 2662-7566 | issn_series | 2662-7558 | copyright | Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 |
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