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Analysis & Opinions - Jewish World Review
Cyber War I has already begun
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There is good reason to fear it could be the Second Korean War, with craziness in North Korea and chaos in the South. Or it could be yet another quagmire in the Middle East. Trump's most excitable critics keep warning that World War III will happen on his watch. But I am more worried about Cyber War I - especially as it has already begun.
Journal Article - Small Wars Journal
Twilight Zone Conflicts: Employing Gray Tactics in Cyber Operations
Jessica Malekos Smith
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"...[A]ctors that employ gray tactics in cyber operations need not be successful in actually infiltrating a system to further their revisionist ambitions. Rather, the sheer ramifications from the cyber action itself, has the power to disturb a nation's psyche and challenge the geopolitical status quo."
Analysis & Opinions - The Huffington Post
Decrypting the Global Encryption Debate
Scott J. Shackelford
Eric Richards
Anjanette Raymond
Jaclyn Kerr
Andreas Kuehn
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"As the U.S. Congress considers the appropriate role for the federal government in the encryption debate, policymakers should be mindful of the impact of their actions both within and beyond the United States. To date, the U.S. and Europe are on one side of an Internet governance spectrum favoring the multi-stakeholder status quo with India in the middle, followed by China, and Russia undertaking the most state-centric approach to both Internet governance generally and encryption specifically."
Is Cybersecurity Like Arms Control?
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"In little more than a generation, the Internet has become the substrate of the global economy and governance worldwide. Several billion more human users will be added in the next decade, as will tens of billions of devices, ranging from thermostats to industrial control systems (the 'Internet of Things'). All of this burgeoning interdependence implies vulnerabilities that governments and non-governmental actors can exploit. At the same time, we are only beginning to come to terms with the national-security implications of this. Strategic studies of the cyber domain resemble nuclear strategy in the 1950s: analysts are still not clear about the meaning of offense, defense, deterrence, escalation, norms, and arms control."
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The Meaning of the Cyber Revolution: Perils to Theory and Statecraft
Lucas Kello
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While decisionmakers warn about the cyber threat constantly, there is little systematic analysis of the issue from an international security studies perspective. Cyberweapons are expanding the range of possible harm between the concepts of war and peace, and give rise to enormous defense complications and dangers to strategic stability. It is detrimental to the intellectual progress and policy relevance of the security studies field to continue to avoid the cyber revolution's central questions.
A Global Cyber-crisis in Waiting
Richard Clarke
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"Like-minded nations should also agree that governments should not steal data from private corporations and then give that information to competing companies, as the government of China has been doing on a massive scale. The victims of Chinese economic espionage should seek to establish clear guidelines and penalties within the World Trade Organization system or, if China blocks that, victim states should seek to develop countermeasures and sanctions outside of that structure."
Analysis & Opinions - Forbes
Why We Need Innovation To Prepare For the Global Aging Society
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"Technology alone will not be adequate to address the needs of the elderly. But policy proposals that fail to take into account advances in medicine and engineering are unlikely to take advantage of human creativity. In fact, strategies that put the elderly at the center of the innovation process could significantly increase the prospects of turning the elderly from being a burden on society to being an asset."
Newsletter Article - Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center Newsletter
Scholars Weigh Info-Tech Policy Challenges
| Winter 2011-2012
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In September, experts from Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and other Boston-area universities participated in a three day conference convened by the Belfer Center to examine policy choices facing the fast-changing field of information and communications technology.
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News - Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, Belfer Center
Information and Communications Technology and Public Policy: The Next Wave
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Industry and academic experts from Harvard, MIT, and other Boston-area universities met for a three-day conference in September 2011 to examine policy choices facing the fast-changing field of information and communications technology at the intersection of public policy. The conference was convened by the Belfer Center for Science and International Affair's Information and Communications Technology and Public Policy Project (ICTPP) at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Discussion Paper - Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, Belfer Center
WikiLeaks 2010: A Glimpse of the Future?
Tim Maurer
| August 2011
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The recent publications on WikiLeaks reveal a story about money, fame, sex, underground hackers, and betrayal. But it also involves fundamental questions regarding cyber-security and foreign policy. This paper argues WikiLeaks is only the symptom of a new, larger problem which is the result of technological advances that allow a large quantity of data to be 'stolen' at low or no cost by one or more individuals and to be potentially made public and to go 'viral', spreading exponentially online.