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Access Contested
Security, Identity, and Resistance in Asian Cyberspace
edited by Ronald Deibert, John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, and Jonathan Zittrain
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Access contested : security, identity, and resistance in Asian cyberspace / edited by Ronald Deibert
. . . [et al.].
p. cm. — (Information revolution and global politics)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-262-01678-0 (hardcover : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-262-51680-8 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Cyberspace—Government policy—Asia. 2. Computer security—Asia. 3. Computers—Access
control—Asia. 4. Internet—Government policy—Asia. 5. Internet—Censorship—Asia. I. Deibert,
Ronald.
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