The Spy In The Coffee Machine The End of Privacy as We Know it

by O'Hara, Kieron; Shadbolt, Nigel

• ISBN13: 9781851685547
• ISBN10: 1851685545
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-03-03
• Publisher: Oneworld Publications

Summary

What do you know about the new surveillance state that has been created in the wake of pervasive computing - the increasing use of very small and simple computers in all sorts of host - from your computer to your coat? Well, these little computers can communicate via the web and form powerful networks whose emergent behaviour can be very complex, intelligent, and invasive. The question is: how much of an infringement on privacy are they?

Table of Contents

The case of the disappearing body	p. 1
The surveillance society	p. 25
Computer security meets human idiocy : privacy enhancing technologies and their limits	p. 47
The power of power : Moore's Law and practical obscurity	p. 81
It's the links, stupid : the Internet, the World Wide Web and privatised spaces	p. 109
Man's best friend is his blog : Web 2.0	p. 138
They snoop to conquer : censorship, decisional privacy and ideological privacy	p. 155
Where dust is smart and reality mixed : pervasive computing	p. 184
Get ready, the panopticon's here	p. 210
Endnotes	p. 233
Index	p. 257
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