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Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion, First Edition
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Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion, First Edition

by Hal Abelson, Ken Ledeen, Harry Lewis
June 2008
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
11h 35m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 2Naked in the Sunlight

Privacy Lost, Privacy Abandoned

1984 Is Here, and We Like It

On July 7, 2005, London was shaken as suicide bombers detonated four explosions, three on subways and one on a double-decker bus. The attack on the transit system was carefully timed to occur at rush hour, maximizing its destructive impact. 52 people died and 700 more were injured.

Security in London had already been tight. The city was hosting the G8 Summit, and the trial of fundamentalist cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri had just begun. Hundreds of thousands of surveillance cameras hadn't deterred the terrorist act, but the perpetrators were caught on camera. Their pictures were sent around the world instantly. Working from 80,000 seized tapes, police were ...

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