The listeners : a history of wiretapping in the United States /
Wiretapping is nearly as old as electronic communications. Telegraph operators intercepted enemy messages during the Civil War. Law enforcement agencies were listening to private telephone calls as early as 1895. Communications firms have assisted government eavesdropping programs since the early tw...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2022
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| 在線閱讀: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv29pg4p5 |
書本目錄:
- Introduction: The Ballad of D.C. Williams
- Part One: Dirty Business. Stolen signals and whispering wires
- Detective Burns goes to Washington
- To intercept and divulge
- The wiretapper's nest
- Part Two: The Bug in the Martini Olive. Eavesdroppers
- Tapping God's telephone
- Part Three: The Listening Age. Title III
- Big Brother, where art thou?
- Limited assistance necessary
- Off the wire
- Epilogue : King's call, Hoover's tap.