
Access Controlled
The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace
MIT Press
Published on 30. April 2010
Book
Hardback
640 pages
978-0-262-01434-2 (ISBN)
Description
Internet filtering, censorship of Web content, and online surveillance
are increasing in scale, scope, and sophistication around the world, in democratic
countries as well as in authoritarian states. The first generation of Internet
controls consisted largely of building firewalls at key Internet gateways; China's
famous "Great Firewall of China" is one of the first national Internet
filtering systems. Today the new tools for Internet controls that are emerging go
beyond mere denial of information. These new techniques, which aim to normalize (or
even legalize) Internet control, include targeted viruses and the strategically
timed deployment of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, surveillance at
key points of the Internet's infrastructure, take-down notices, stringent terms of
usage policies, and national information shaping strategies. Access Controlled
reports on this new normative terrain. The book, a project from the OpenNet
Initiative (ONI), a collaboration of the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto's
Munk Centre for International Studies, Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and
Society, and the SecDev Group, offers six substantial chapters that analyze Internet
control in both Western and Eastern Europe and a section of shorter regional reports
and country profiles drawn from material gathered by the ONI around the world
through a combination of technical interrogation and field research
methods.
are increasing in scale, scope, and sophistication around the world, in democratic
countries as well as in authoritarian states. The first generation of Internet
controls consisted largely of building firewalls at key Internet gateways; China's
famous "Great Firewall of China" is one of the first national Internet
filtering systems. Today the new tools for Internet controls that are emerging go
beyond mere denial of information. These new techniques, which aim to normalize (or
even legalize) Internet control, include targeted viruses and the strategically
timed deployment of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, surveillance at
key points of the Internet's infrastructure, take-down notices, stringent terms of
usage policies, and national information shaping strategies. Access Controlled
reports on this new normative terrain. The book, a project from the OpenNet
Initiative (ONI), a collaboration of the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto's
Munk Centre for International Studies, Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and
Society, and the SecDev Group, offers six substantial chapters that analyze Internet
control in both Western and Eastern Europe and a section of shorter regional reports
and country profiles drawn from material gathered by the ONI around the world
through a combination of technical interrogation and field research
methods.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass.
United States
Publishing group
MIT Press Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
34 s/w Abbildungen
34 black & white illustrations, 34 b&w illus.
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
1157 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-262-01434-2 (9780262014342)
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Persons
Ronald Deibert is Professor of Political Science and Director of the
Citizen Lab at the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of
Toronto. John Palfrey is Henry N. Ess II Professor of Law and Vice Dean for Library
and Information Resources at Harvard Law School. Rafal Rohozinski is a Principal
with the SecDev Group, a global strategy and research analytics firm. Jonathan
Zittrain is Professor at Harvard Law School and the author of The Future of the
Internet--And How to Stop It. Deibert, Palfrey, Rohozinski, and Zittrain are the
coeditors of Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering
(MIT Press, 2008).
Citizen Lab at the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of
Toronto. John Palfrey is Henry N. Ess II Professor of Law and Vice Dean for Library
and Information Resources at Harvard Law School. Rafal Rohozinski is a Principal
with the SecDev Group, a global strategy and research analytics firm. Jonathan
Zittrain is Professor at Harvard Law School and the author of The Future of the
Internet--And How to Stop It. Deibert, Palfrey, Rohozinski, and Zittrain are the
coeditors of Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering
(MIT Press, 2008).
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Foreword