Tuesday, November 08, 2005

Interessantes Buch entdeckt: "Covert and overt. Recollecting and Connecting Intelligence Service and Information Science", herausgegeben von Robert V. Williams und Ben-Ami Lipetz, erschienen 2005 bei Scarecrow Press und Information Today.
Zum Inhalt: "Covert and Overt explores the historical relationships between covert intelligence work and information/computer science. The book features contributions by intelligence professionals and technologists from a range of U.S. and British agencies and armed services. The book begins by examining the pivotal strides to utilize technology in the gathering and dissemination of government/military intelligence during World War II. Next, it traces the evolution of the relationship between spymasters, computers, and systems developers through the years of the Cold War — a period notable for the parallel development of high-tech spyware and powerful new systems for encoding, decoding, storing, and manipulating intelligence data".

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