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020    9781594206665 (hardcover) 
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100 1  Klimburg, Alexander,|d1976-|eauthor. 
245 14 The darkening web :|bthe war for cyberspace /|cAlexander 
       Klimburg. 
246 30 War for cyberspace 
264  1 New York :|bPenguin Press,|c2017. 
300    xii, 420 pages ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-408) and 
       index. 
520    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 
       US, 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 debate about the different aspirations for cyberspace 
       is nothing short of a war over our global values.  
650  0 Internet and international relations. 
650  0 Information society|xPolitical aspects. 
650  0 Cyberspace|xGovernment policy. 
650  0 Information warfare|xRisk assessment. 
650  0 Internet|xPolitical aspects. 
650  0 Computer crimes|xPrevention. 
650  0 Security, International. 
650  0 Power (Social sciences)