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A cybersecurity expert and former Google privacy analyst’s urgent call to protect devices and networks against malicious hackers

New technologies have provided both incredible convenience and new threats. The same kinds of digital networks that allow you to hail a ride using your smartphone let power grid operators control a country’s electricity—and these personal, corporate, and government systems are all vulnerable. In Ukraine, unknown hackers shut off electricity to nearly 230,000 people for six hours. North Korean hackers destroyed networks at Sony Pictures in retaliation for a film that mocked Kim Jong-un. And Russian cyberattackers leaked Democratic National Committee emails in an attempt to sway a U.S. presidential election.

And yet despite such documented risks, government agencies, whose investigations and surveillance are stymied by encryption, push for a weakening of protections. In this accessible and riveting read, Susan Landau makes a compelling case for the need to secure our data, explaining how we must maintain cybersecurity in an insecure age.

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“A sophisticated yet accessible primer on how communications technologies, devices, and services work; the threats to them; and the tools, including encryption, that . . . can protect our privacy and secure our data.”—Glenn C. Altschuler, HuffPost

“[Landau’s] clean knowledgeable writing reflects the depth of her expertise as she traces the tug of war that has played out between law enforcement and cryptographers in recent decades.”
—Kadhim Shubber, Financial Times

“A detailed overview of the history of cybersecurity.”—Hope Reese, UnDark

“An excellent primer on the importance of encryption for users of technology.”—Choice

"Susan Landau manages to harness the sprint of our online era and provides a lasting framework for how to manage, protect, and even master our digital footprint."—Juliette Kayyem, former Assistant Secretary, United States Department of Homeland Security

"Encryption is essential to our online security, but it also makes the job of law enforcement harder. In Listening In, Landau gives us an authoritative and unflinching look at this challenge and confronts the urgent question of security in the digital age."—Matt Olsen, Former Director, National Counterterrorism Center

"Susan Landau has performed a remarkable feat of public service with Listening In: she simplifies the complex contemporary debate around privacy and security trade-offs in a way that welcomes anyone with an interest in these topics to engage with them -- and she demonstrates why everyone should."—Jonathan Zittrain, author of The Future of the Internet – and How to Stop It

“An extremely important book. Landau has the remarkable talent of taking very broad issues and detailing them in a concise, yet comprehensive manner.”—Ben Rothke, author of Computer Security, on Landau's previous book Surveillance or Security?

"Susan Landau is eminently qualified to guide readers to deeper understanding of risks and threats that accompany an increasingly connected world. Our online appetites are growing and our presence attracts hacking and surveillance among other uses we may not have authorized or even anticipated. Must read."—Vint Cerf, internet pioneer

About the Author

Susan Landau is Bridge Professor in the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and the School of Engineering, Department of Computer Science, at Tufts University.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Yale University Press (November 28, 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0300227442
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0300227444
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.4 x 5.8 x 0.9 inches

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Susan Landau is Bridge Professor of Cyber Security and Policy at The Fletcher School and the School of Engineering, Department of Computer Science, Tufts University. Landau works at the intersection of cybersecurity, national security, law, and policy. Her book, "People Count: Contact-Tracing Apps and Public Health, " will be published in 2021 by MIT Press; Landau is also the author of "Listening In: Cybersecurity in an Insecure Age" (Yale University Press, 2017), "Surveillance or Security? The Risks Posed by New Wiretapping Technologies," (MIT Press, 2011) and "Privacy on the Line: the Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption," co-authored with Whitfield Diffie (MIT Press, 1998). Landau has testified before Congress on encryption, surveillance, and cybersecurity issues. Landau served as a Senior Staff Privacy Analyst at Google, a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, and a faculty member at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, the University of Massachusetts, and Wesleyan University. An inductee in both the Cybersecurity Hall of Fame and the Information System Security Association Hall of Fame and Guggenheim fellow, Landau is also a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the Association for Computing Machinery.

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RFS

Private communications AND effective law enforcement: how both can be achieved

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 15, 2018

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This book explains to all of us the tension between insuring privacy via encryption and easing law enforcement by requiring "exceptional access" to break encryption. This is NOT a technical book about how it all works, but a book full of examples of how phones, computers, and their suppliers have improved privacy protection AND how law enforcement has continued to catch bad guys with effective investigations, despite lacking CONTENT of private communications. If you're like me and prefer to build understanding from the ground up (examples, cases) rather than trying to infer what politicians and public officials mean by broad, often hyperbolic, generalizations ("we're going dark"), this is a great book. It's short, it's to the point, it's well written, and an engaging read.

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Andrew M.

What everybody needs to know about being cyber safe as a citizen and as a society

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 13, 2018

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An up to date discussion of the tension between strong privacy protection for private individuals and law enforcement’s need to track and capture criminals. Every citizen of every democracy needs to read this accessible accounting by one of the founding experts in the field of information security. Especially important is the treatment of what’s at risk of cyberwarfare/cyber mischief by states and state-sponsored entities. Completely documented with footnotes and published by a renowned university press, yet totally free of academic jargon, this is a highly recommended read.

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Luke H. Crouch

Great overview of many important security topics

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 15, 2018

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For a tech security professional, this book may not cover as much technical detail as one may want, but it covers a great broad range of the worldwide threats to cyber security .

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David A. Marshall

It kind of feels like the main point of the book is that allowing ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 9, 2018

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Haven't finished it but the descriptions of various security measures and the kinds of hacks and breaches that compromise systems
all seemed rather vague. I know it's not a textbook on cybersecurity but I would have preferred more detail in the explanations of how these things work. I was hoping for a gentle introduction to cryptography and cybersecurity that would have explained things in more detail than https being a secure browser protocol for credit card transactions and such. It kind of feels like the main point of the book is that allowing government back-doors into security systems is the wrong way to go.

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Yzabel

they could do so easily; whereas strong encryption would make it difficult or ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 14, 2018

[NOTE: I received a copy of this book through NetGalley.]

An interesting foray into encryption and privacy, especially when considering the point of view of authorities who may need to access data on devices seized upon arrests.

The author makes a case for strengthened encryption, and I feel this makes more sense than the contrary. The book is positioned around the main controversy of including backdoors to allow police and intelligence services to access a device, so that when they need to do it during an investigation, to apprehend a perp or to follow the trail of other people potentially involved, they could do so easily; whereas strong encryption would make it difficult or impossible. However, as has been discussed during actual investigations (an example given in the book involves Apple), there’d be no guarantees that in-built backdoors would be used only by authorities: if they’re here, sooner or later someone with ill intentions is bound to find them and use them, too.

This ties into a general concern about how we have evolved into a digital age, and have to envision security from this perspective. Here also, while not going into deep technical details, the book explains the principles underlying this new brand of security; how this or that method works; the pros and cons of going towards more encryption or less encryption; what other solutions have already been tested, especially in military environments; how cyber-attacks can disrupt governmental operations in many different ways, such as what happened with Estonia and Georgia, and even the 2016 US elections. All very current and hot issues that deserve to be pointed at and examined, because whatever solutions get implemented, if they create less security and impinge on civilian privacy as well, they’re not going to be useful for very long (if ever).

Also interesting, even though it’s not the main focus, is the concept of encryption methods needing to be made public in order to be really efficient: the more people have a chance of poking at them, testing them, and finding faults, the more these methods can be revised and strengthened.

Conclusion: Not a very technical book, but that’s precisely why it makes a good introduction to such matters: easy to understand, while highlighting major concerns that not only deal with national security, but with our own (and with our privacy) as well.

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Anne H. Anderson

Readable, well-supported, technically accurate; law enforcement does NOT need back-door access

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 10, 2018

This is a readable, engaging, yet technically accurate description of current threats against privacy and their effects on commerce as well as on individuals. It persuasively, with specific examples, outlines alternatives to the FBI insistence on back-door access to computer communications. If you think it is only individual privacy that is at stake, or if you think law enforcement requires back-door access in order to "keep us safe" and to "catch terrorists", you need to read this book. Susan Landau has worked in this field for many years, teaching, researching, writing, and testifying before Congress and other bodies. This is a voice respected in the cybersecurity community.

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Gonza

Another dark view on our future due to the web ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 28, 2017

Another dark view on our future due to the web and cyber espionage etc.etc. I wonder when it will be possible to control a lot of the things we cannot control right now, even because our government doesn't want us to be able to control them. Scary.

Un altro libro che si dilunga in quanto sará brutto il nostro futuro a causa del cyber spionaggio che possa poi essere usato da hacker o dai poteri forti. Mi chiedo se e quanto sará possibile controllare quanto attualmente ci é impossibile tenere sotto controllo, sia per cause esterne che governative. Mette paura.

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J. Wilson

Great resource for people that aren't sure what the pros ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 12, 2018

Great resource for people that aren't sure what the pros and cons of strong encryption are. This book clearly explains why every day people need it, and why the companies that make secure products don't want to compromise them, or you, with weaker encryption or back doors.

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dp.c

Very informative

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 16, 2018

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Precise and accessible description of how we have arrived at this point from someone who is clearly well informed. However I was unconvinced that end to end encryption is the best solution to cover all sections of society, industry and government. The first duty of the state is defence of the realm and at some point a State or States security services will force regulation on trans national companies and demand compliance due to criminal and terrorist threats.

Luca Giuzzi

Doveroso ed importante

Reviewed in Italy 🇮🇹 on December 9, 2019

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Un saggio importante sull'importanza della crittografia nelle comunicazioni personali a tutti i livelli e sulla sua giustificazione anche quando potrebbe sembrare non necessaria o controproducente. Raccomandato per meglio capire come l'uso di tecniche di cifratura aumenti la sicurezza individuale senza compromettere quella nazionale.

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