The Internet as a Cold War weapon

The history of the Internet winds through a lot of territory. But America’s fight against communism and the Soviet Union looms over almost every part of the story.

With the global Internet War heating up like never before, I remembered that I’ve been forgetting to publish the preface I wrote to the Russian edition of my book Surveillance Valley: «The Internet as a weapon.»  I’ve been meaning to post it for a year now. Well, the wait is over…

I wrote the text while sitting at a friend’s dacha on the outskirts of Mos…