Cybersecrecy, 28 minutes, $255. The Internet: Cyber Hate and Freedom of Speech, 20 minutes, $250. Distributed by New Dimension Media, Inc.
The first of these two videos, Cybersecrecy, effectively covers one of the more compelling issues of our time: The security of information. The producers take the viewer through a brief history of the development of cryptography-the science of code making and code breaking-from Caesar to contemporary times, using a variety of efficacious tools such as narration, interviews, and re-enactments.
Following this historical perspective, the bulk of the video then focuses on the many applications of cryptographyfrom espionage, to corporate …