Spying through a glass darkly : the ethics of espionage and counter-intelligence /
Cecile Fabre
Bok · Engelsk · 2022
| Omfang | xi, 251 sider
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| Opplysninger | "Espionage and counter-intelligence activities, both real and imagined, weave a complex and alluring story. From Julius Caesar's spies in Britain to the spies scouting medieval market towns under the cloak of their clerical habit, from Francis Walsingham's spy network to the Sun King's ciphers, from the crypto-analysts of Bletchley Park to the Cold War's intelligence war, from the NASA wiretapping scandal to the infiltration of ISIS cells by Chechen forces loyal to Putin-one could tell hundreds of anecdotes. Books (both fiction and non-fiction), articles, special journal issues, and policy papers about espionage number in the dozens of thousands. And yet, there is hardly any serious philosophical work on this issue. This book seeks to fill the gap. It offer an ethics of espionage and counterintelligence. It argues that intelligence activities are morally justified, morally mandatory even, in war and peace but only as a means to thwart violations of fundamental rights. It scrutinises a range of acts which are the bread and butter of those activities: deception, treason, manipulation, exploitation, blackmail, eavesdropping, computer hacking and mass surveillance"--
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| ISBN | 9780198833765
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