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The red web, the struggle between Russia's digital dictators and the new online revolutionaries, Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-350) and index

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The red web

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Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan

the struggle between Russia's digital dictators and the new online revolutionaries

The Internet in Russia is either the most efficient totalitarian tool or the device by which totalitarianism will be overthrown. Perhaps both. 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. 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

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Struggle between Russia's digital dictators and the new online revolutionaries