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The search for Echelon, a fabled system that supposedly sees all, hears all, by a young law student in the UK. This is a look at the NSA and its facilities across the globe, the interactions between NSA and the agencies of other nations. An excellent first book by a promising new investigator.
I have mixed feelings about SIGINT (Signals Intelligence) and COMINT (Communication Intelligence). On one hand, I see the need and on the other, I have a real concern about privacy and the legality of some of the operations that take place within the intelligence community. It has taken me several years to finish this book, mainly because I would lose interest or get distracted by something in the book and go off on a tangent. I fully expected this to be another "intelligence is evil" type book,...
Interesting but a bit lose and with the benefit of hindsight a little off at times.
Interesting book that explores eavesdropping and surveillance in the US and beyond. Not a linear story but more a collection of research and stories by Raden Keefe. Crazy to learn about just how many ways, and how many listening sites, there are.
Exceptionally well written. Insightful. A look into signal intelligence capturing by the Anglo alliance.
Get SmartWritten by Mandi Chestler on January 10th, 2008Book Rating: 4/5An eye opening expose on the world of governmental spying, Keefe's writing is well researched and riviting. I particularly liked that he stayed objective and fact-based all the way through the book, and avoided the temptation to succumb to conspiracy theories or breathless speculation--the great temptation when dealing with the topic of espionage and eavesdropping. I feel so much better informed about the warrantless wiretap...
Fascinating but had to stop listening 1/3 of the way due to another book becoming available.
Interesting but dated.
I have read a bunch of books on spying and intelligence agencies over the years.Most of their authors allowed themselves the luxury of blurring the line between plainly observable / provable facts and wild flights of fanciful conjecture.This book is a refreshing change in that and other regards. Patrick Radden Keefe does an excellent job sketching in both broad and detailed strokes exactly what we do know about agencies like the NSA and their counterparts in the UK, AU and NZ and plainly states...
Important topic but read like a PHD thesis which made it boring and slow to read. It relays a lot of data about global eavesdropping done by governments, in particular the USA and UK, who often work in tandem as opposed to working with other nations. However, the structure of the book was lacking, in that you were not sure what would follow or why, which made it hard to absorb and retain, leaving you with a sense of rambling facts without coherent nexus—other than the general topic. Ultimately,
I'll give this book every possible benefit of the doubt -- because I can't prove what I think might be going on. Even in that scenario -- it's just a moderately shitty news article writ looong. And that's the best possible case. Just a shitty news article writ long. This author is an ass.
Interesting but dated look at signals intelligence and the environment around it.The way that information classified as “Secret” gains more credibility than it deserves, the method or mechanism of collection enhancing the end product beyond logic or sense.
