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Cryptography and the global South : secrecy, signals and information imperialism

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Dover, Robert and Aldrich, Richard J. (2020) Cryptography and the global South : secrecy, signals and information imperialism. Third World Quarterly, 41 (11). pp. 1900-1917. doi:10.1080/01436597.2020.1793665 ISSN 0143-6597.

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Abstract

For decades, espionage during the Cold War was often presented as a competition between East and West. The extent to which the Global South constituted the main battleground for this conflict is now being appreciated, together with the way coups and covert regime change represented a continuation of colonialism by other means. Recent revelations about the nature of technical surveillance and signals intelligence during this period paint an even more alarming picture. New research materials released in Germany show the ways in which Washington, London and even Moscow conspired to systematically attack the secure communications of the Global South. For almost half a century, less advanced countries were persuaded to invest significant sums in encryption machines that were adapted to perform poorly. This was a deceptive system of non-secrecy that opened the sensitive communications of the Global South to an elite group of nations, that included former colonial rulers, and emergent neo-imperial powers. Moreover, the nature of this technical espionage, which involved commercial communications providers, is an early and instructive example of digital global information inequality.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: D History General and Old World > D History (General)
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Cold War, World War, 1939-1945 -- Cryptography, World politics -- 1945-1989, Intelligence service -- Historiography
Journal or Publication Title: Third World Quarterly
Publisher: Routledge
ISSN: 0143-6597
Official Date: 2020
Dates:
DateEvent
2020Published
3 August 2020Available
6 July 2020Accepted
Volume: 41
Number: 11
Page Range: pp. 1900-1917
DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2020.1793665
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Third World Quarterly on 03/08/2020, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/01436597.2020.1793665
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
Date of first compliant deposit: 6 July 2020
Date of first compliant Open Access: 3 February 2022
RIOXX Funder/Project Grant:
Project/Grant IDRIOXX Funder NameFunder ID
UNSPECIFIEDLeverhulme Trusthttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000275
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