Electronic communication interception technologies and issues of power

Electronic communication interception technologies and issues of power

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Ventre, Daniel, author (author), Guillot, Philippe, author
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London, England ; Hoboken, NJ : ISTE Ltd [2023]
Edición:1st ed
Materias:
Computers.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009811327506719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. History and Repertoire of Communication Interception Practices
  • 1.1. Military interceptions during the war
  • 1.1.1. The interception of telegraphic communications
  • 1.1.2. The interception of radio communications
  • 1.1.3. Telephone interception
  • 1.1.4. The use of SIGINT capabilities
  • 1.1.5. Wartime interceptions in cyberspace
  • 1.1.6. Drones and interceptions
  • 1.2. The interception of international communications: espionage, surveillance, war
  • 1.2.1. The interception of telegrams
  • 1.2.2. Espionage during the Cold War: satellite, radio, telephone interceptions
  • 1.2.3. The interception of international communications: the Echelon program
  • 1.2.4. Bulk cyber surveillance
  • 1.2.5. Foreign companies in national telecommunication infrastructures
  • 1.2.6. Actions over undersea Internet cables
  • 1.2.7. Interceptions in planes and airports
  • 1.2.8. International interceptions as a product of secret alliances
  • 1.3. Interception of diplomatic correspondence
  • 1.4. Political surveillance: targeted and bulk interceptions
  • 1.4.1. Interception of correspondence
  • 1.4.2. Bulk domestic surveillance in East Germany
  • 1.4.3. Cyber surveillance in Russia: the SORM system
  • 1.4.4. Fixed and mobile telephone tapping
  • 1.4.5. The interception of electronic communications in the political sphere
  • 1.5. Criminal interceptions
  • 1.6. Police, justice: the fight against crime, lawful interceptions
  • 1.7. On the usefulness and effectiveness of interceptions
  • Chapter 2. The Central Issue of Encryption
  • 2.1. The capabilities required for interceptions
  • 2.1.1. Material, technological capabilities
  • 2.1.2. Human resources
  • 2.2. Protecting yourself against the threat of interceptions: encryption
  • 2.2.1. The public key revolution.
  • 2.2.2. Advances in factorization
  • 2.2.3. Shor's quantum algorithm
  • 2.2.4. The evolution of computing capabilities
  • 2.2.5. The evolution of etching precision
  • 2.3. Attacking encrypted communications, circumventing the hurdle of encryption
  • 2.3.1. Interceptions on encrypted messaging
  • 2.3.2. The attacks against keys and PKIs
  • 2.3.3. The use of backdoors
  • Chapter 3. Power Struggles
  • 3.1. State pressure on the industry: cooperation or coercion logics?
  • 3.2. The accounts of whistleblowers and their analyses of the balance of power between the state, the citizen and companies
  • 3.2.1. The account of Herbert O. Yardley
  • 3.2.2. The account of Perry Fellwock (also known as Winslow Peck)
  • 3.2.3. The account of Mark Klein
  • 3.2.4. The account of James Bamford
  • 3.2.5. The account of Babak Pasdar
  • 3.2.6. The account of Joseph Nacchio
  • 3.2.7. The account of Edward Snowden
  • 3.2.8. The account of Julian Assange
  • 3.3. Limits imposed on the state's power to control technology
  • 3.3.1. The difficult and fragile international regulation of technologies
  • 3.3.2. Illicit markets and the circumvention of laws
  • 3.4. Trust
  • 3.4.1. How much confidence in encryption?
  • 3.4.2. The acceleration of calculations as a factor of confidence
  • 3.4.3. Abandoning secret methods
  • 3.4.4. Provable security
  • 3.4.5. The worlds of Impagliazzo
  • 3.4.6. The contribution of quantum computing
  • 3.5. Conclusion
  • 3.5.1. Technologies
  • 3.5.2. Actors
  • 3.5.3. Interactions or relationships
  • Appendices
  • References
  • Index
  • EULA.

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