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"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 prominent officials in 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. They explain the long and storied history of Russian advanced surveillance systems, from research laboratories in Soviet era labor camps to the legalization of government monitoring of all telephone and internet communications in 1995. But for every hacker subcontracted by the FSB to interfere with Russia's antagonists abroad--such as those who in a massive Denial of Service a
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- Author
- Andrei Soldatov & Irina Borogan [Soldatov, Andrei & Borogan, Irina]
- Publisher
- PublicAffairs, Hachette book group
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781608825301
- Category
- psychology
- Subjects
- History, Sociology, Political Science
- Rating
- 3.87 / 5 (146 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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