Chatter: Uncovering the Echelon Surveillance Network and the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping

by Patrick Radden Keefe

Book Overview

Provocative, often funny, and alarming without being alarmist, Chatter is a journey through the bizarre and shadowy world of global eavesdropping. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812968271
• ISBN13: 9780812968279
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Random House Trade
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 7.6"

Customer Reviews

excellent reference

Keefe has done an admirable job and shows amazing insights, especially for a younger writer without the chance to gain extensive experience. His tone is evenhanded yet condemnatory when necessary. His warnings on our lack of interest in preserving what little privacy rights we still have should not go unheeded. And those who broke the law should be held accountable, all the way to the top.

Spies

I was given this book by a friend and finished it in two sittings. Not only did I learn a great deal about how countries spy on other countries and even their own citizens, this book also made me think for the first time about privacy issues. To what extent should I worry about how much the government knows about me and my life? I would recommend this book to anyone. It is a great read.

informative AND entertaining

The author of this book accomplishes the unusual feat of crafting a work of non-fiction that is both a primer on government surveillance in the post-modern world and in incredibly entertaining chronicle of his adventures (and misadventures) as he attempted to research the subject. I couldn't put it down.

Reads like the Da Vinci Code

This book is a must-read for any informed citizen. I had no idea this was happening. Additionally, it's a very entertaining read. It reads like the Da Vinci Code!

Very Entertaining

Its written more like spy novel, yet it still deals honestly with the very important issues of our intelligence network. I think the author is dead on when he talks about our need for more human intelligence. He does this with numerous anecdotes, which are both interesting and very entertaining. Overall, the presentation is very well balanced without the polemic we so often hear coming out of most contemporary writers. Entertaining and a must read for anyone interested in our national defense