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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: darkening web
    sub title: the war for cyberspace
  name:
    name part: Klimburg, Alexander
    name part: 1976-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 420 pages ; 25 cm.
  abstract: No single invention of the last half century has changed the way we live now as much as the Internet. Alexander Klimburg was a member of the generation for whom it was a utopian ideal turned reality, a place where ideas, information, and knowledge could be shared and new freedoms found and enjoyed. Two decades later, the future isn't so bright any more. Increasingly, the Internet is used as a weapon and a means of domination by states eager to exploit or curtail global connectivity in order to further their national interests. Klimburg is a leading voice in the conversation on the implications of this dangerous shift, and in The Darkening Web, he explains why we underestimate the consequences of states' ambitions to project power in cyberspace at our peril. Not only have hacking and cyber operations fundamentally changed the nature of political conflict, ensnaring states in a struggle to maintain a precarious peace that could rapidly collapse into all-out war, but the rise of covert influencing and information warfare has enabled these same global powers to create and disseminate their own distorted versions of reality in which anything is possible. At stake are not only our personal data or the electrical grid, but the Internet as we know it today, and with it the very existence of open and democratic societies. Blending anecdote with argument, Klimburg brings us face-to-face with the range of threats the struggle for cyberspace presents, from an apocalyptic scenario of debilitated civilian infrastructure to a 1984-like erosion of privacy and freedom of expression. Focusing on different approaches to cyber-conflict in the United States, Russia and China, he reveals the extent to which the battle for control of the Internet is as complex and perilous as the one surrounding nuclear weapons during the Cold War, and quite possibly as dangerous for humanity as a whole. Authoritative, thought-provoking and compellingly argued, The Darkening Web makes clear that the debat…
  table of contents: The body of cyber -- Mind over matter -- Everyone can be a god -- Ruling the domain -- Pin-striped cyber -- No one but us -- Attack to excess -- Strategic innuendo -- Russia's invisible war -- Of siloviki and cyber crime -- Pwnage diplomacy -- The Chinese cyber dream -- Manning the great firewall -- Handling the barbarians -- Parsing cyber power -- The great cyber game -- An end-to-end world -- Conclusion -- Epilogue.
  note: Alexander Klimburg.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Internet and international relations
  subject:
    topic: Information society
    topic: Political aspects
  subject:
    topic: Cyberspace
    topic: Government policy
  subject:
    topic: Information warfare
    topic: Risk assessment
  subject:
    topic: Internet
    topic: Political aspects
  subject:
    topic: Computer crime
    topic: Prevention
  subject:
    topic: Security, International
  subject:
    topic: Power (Social sciences)
  subject:
    topic: COMPUTERS / Security
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Privacy & Surveillance
  classification: JZ1254 .K56 2017
  classification: 327.0285/4678
  identifier: 9781594206665 (hardcover)
  identifier: 159420666X (hardcover)
  identifier: 2017008579
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 170315
    record change date: 20171016141106.0
    record identifier: in00003854725