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Title:
The red web : the Kremlin's Wars on the internet / Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan.
Author:
Soldatov, Andreĭ, author.
Publication Information:
New York : PublicAffairs, [2017]
Call Number:
JN6695.A55 A859 2017
Abstract:
After the Moscow protests in 2011-2012, Vladimir Putin became terrified of the internet as a dangerous means for political mobilization and uncensored public debate. Only four years later, the Kremlin used that same platform to disrupt the 2016 presidential election in the United States. How did this transformation happen? The Red Web is a groundbreaking history of the Kremlin's massive online-surveillance state that exposes just how easily the internet can become the means for repression, control, and geopolitical warfare. In this bold, updated edition, Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan offer a perspective from Moscow with new and previously unreported details of the 2016 hacking operation, telling the story of how Russia came to embrace the disruptive potential of the web and interfere with democracy around the world.
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9781610399579
Physical Description:
xi, 400 pages ; 21 cm
Contents:
The prison of information -- The first connection -- Merlin's tower -- The black box -- The coming of Putin -- Internet rising -- Revolt of the wired -- Putin strikes back -- "We just come up with the hardware" -- The Snowden affair -- Putin's overseas offensive -- Watch your back -- The big red button -- Moscow's long shadow -- Information runs free -- The red web comes to the United States -- Epilogue.
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