Perlroth, Nicole
Summary: Filled with spies, hackers, arms dealers, and a few unsung heroes, written like a thriller and a reference, This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends is an astonishing feat of journalism. Based on years of reporting and hundreds of interviews, The New York Times reporter Nicole Perlroth lifts the curtain on a market in shadow, revealing the urgent threat faced by us all if we cannot bring the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.32 PERSummary: Can high-tech weapons and unmanned defense systems outsmart the world's leading terrorists-perhaps even stopping them before they attack? This program looks at innovations now being developed for battlefield use as well as surveillance and security purposes. Featured technologies include guns that shoot around corners, automated vehicles that can neutralize the enemy, robots that detect and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Stoll, Clifford.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.168 STOSummary: With the advent of the Internet, data has become available worldwide at the click of a button-including sensitive personal data. What is the potential for misuse of this information, and can users be sure that sites visited for online shopping, banking, and social networking are storing it safely? This program examines the transmission, storage, and use of electronic information, with the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: With unprecedented access, this behind-the-scenes chronicle follows director Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald's encounters with whistle-blower Edward Snowden in a hotel room in Hong Kong, as he hands over classified documents that provide evidence of mass indiscriminate and illegal invasions of privacy by the NSA.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2015
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CITSummary: The incredible untold story of Edward Snowden, the polarizing figure who exposed shocking illegal surveillance activities by the NSA and became one of the most wanted men in the world. He is considered a hero by some, and a traitor by others.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SNOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SNO RATED RSummary: Compact and portable, digitized information is an attractive alternative to bulky books, analog media, and emulsion-based photographs-but can it stand the test of time? In this program, Stewart Brand, co-inventor of the TCP/IP Internet protocol, and others in the know assess the rapid proliferation of digitization; confront the alarming risk of massive data loss through technology obsolescence,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Smith, Jeremy N.
Summary: When she arrived at MIT in the 1990s, Alien wanted to study aerospace engineering, but she was soon drawn to the school's venerable tradition of high-risk physical trespassing: the original 'hacking.' Within a year, one of her hallmates was dead, two others were on trial, and two had been institutionalized. And Alien's adventures were only just beginning. After a stint at the storied, secretive...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 ALIEN SMISummary: Digital technology plays an increasingly significant-and, many believe, unethical and intrusive-role in the lives of Americans. This CNBC program examines the rapidly growing data-mining and surveillance industries and brings examples of dubious and hurtful information-sharing to light. Case studies include a man whose cell phone records were acquired by his former employer, a woman whose...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008