{"product_id":"the-red-web-the-kremlins-wars-on-the-internet-paperback","title":"The Red Web: The Kremlin's Wars on the Internet - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAndrei Soldatov\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eIrina Borogan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Library Journal Best Book of 2015\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA NPR Great Read of 2015\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The Internet in Russia is either the most efficient totalitarian tool or the device by which totalitarianism will be overthrown. Perhaps both. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e On the eighth floor of an ordinary-looking building in an otherwise residential district of southwest Moscow, in a room occupied by the Federal Security Service (FSB), is a box the size of a VHS player marked SORM. The Russian government's front line in the battle for the future of the Internet, SORM is the world's most intrusive listening device, monitoring e-mails, Internet usage, Skype, and all social networks. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 attack, overwhelmed the entire Internet in neighboring Estonia -- there is a radical or an opportunist who is using the web to chip away at the power of the state at home. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Drawing from scores 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 peel back the history of advanced surveillance systems in Russia. From research laboratories in Soviet-era labor camps, to the legalization of government monitoring of all telephone and Internet communications in the 1990s, to the present day, their incisive and alarming investigation into the Kremlin's massive online-surveillance state exposes just how easily a free global exchange can be coerced into becoming a tool of repression and geopolitical warfare. Dissidents, oligarchs, and some of the world's most dangerous hackers collide in the uniquely Russian virtual world of \u003ci\u003eThe Red Web.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrei Soldatov\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eIrina Borogan\u003c\/b\u003e are cofounders of Agentura.Ru and authors of \u003ci\u003eThe Red Web\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe New Nobility\u003c\/i\u003e. Their work has been featured in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times, Moscow Times, Washington Post, Online Journalism Review, Le Monde, Christian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e, CNN, and BBC. The \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e has called Agentura.ru \"a web site that came in from the cold to unveil Russian secrets.\" Soldatov and Borogan live in Moscow, Russia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 416\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 22, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51770706460960,"sku":"9781610399579","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/56d47040209751a919349198df8af450.webp?v=1780377354","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-red-web-the-kremlins-wars-on-the-internet-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}