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April 3rd, 2013 // Preventing Jail Time and Torture with IOCs – by Brandon Dixon
Last month I was fortunate enough to attend the 2013 Cyber Dialogue conference hosted in Toronto, Canada. Despite much of the conference centering around policy, privacy and governance, I really enjoyed myself and surely plan to go back next year. … Continue reading
March 25th, 2013 // Cyberespionage and retribution – by Stewart Baker
I’ve become a big proponent of adding deterrence – really punishment – to our menu of responses to massive cyberespionage. Those who used to argue that we can’t identify our attackers have been largely silenced by an avalanche of attribution … Continue reading
March 18th, 2013 // Cyber Governance without Government? – by Rex Hughes
Even though Internet enabled cyberspace is roughly a quarter century old, we continue to gather at international fora to debate the proper role of government in its governance. Unfortunately, this intellectual task has taken on greater urgency in recent years … Continue reading
March 16th, 2013 // Regulating the Market for Zero-day Exploits: Look to the demand side – by Milton Mueller
A market has developed in which specialized firms discover new vulnerabilities in software and sell that knowledge for tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars. These vulnerabilities are known as “zero day exploits” because there is no advance knowledge of … Continue reading
March 15th, 2013 // Director Ron Deibert and Senior Researcher Sarah McKune Op-Ed on Canadian involvement in Internet censorship and surveillance
Citizen Lab and Canada Centre for Global Security Studies Director Ron Deibert and Senior Researcher Sarah McKune wrote an op-ed on the digital arms trade in the 13 March edition of the Ottawa Citizen. The piece highlighted Canadian involvement in … Continue reading
March 15th, 2013 // Realism Endures: Why States Seek Digital Arms and Will Continue to Do So – by John B. Sheldon
Why is there an emerging market in so-called ‘digital arms’? More particularly, where is the demand for digital arms coming from? Just as James Lewis, writing elsewhere in this forum, asks what it is that regulation of the digital arms … Continue reading
March 14th, 2013 // Cyber Stewards Join the Dialogue
At the Citizen Lab and Canada Centre for Global Security Studies, we believe that it is essential that the process of cyber securitization taking place in the South includes local voices, who can articulate a vision of cyber security in … Continue reading
March 13th, 2013 // You Only Click Twice: FinFisher’s Global Proliferation – by Morgan Marquis-Boire, Bill Marczak, Claudio Guarnieri, and John Scott-Railton
This research brief, authored by Morgan Marquis-Boire, Security Researcher with the Citizen Lab, Bill Marczak, Claudio Guarnieri, and John Scott-Railton, Research Fellow with the Citizen Lab, describes the results of a comprehensive global Internet scan for the command and control … Continue reading
March 13th, 2013 // Governance for a Domain Constructed – by Chris Bronk
“Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns or detective stories.” Arthur C. Clarke As cyber issues become a more significant element of geopolitics, they attract more attention from policymakers. Today, those in positions of economic and political leadership are concerned … Continue reading
March 13th, 2013 // Facing the Costs of an Open Internet – by Karl Kathuria
The future of openness on the Internet is currently the subject of wide debate. Having started with engineers defining standards through informal mechanisms, it has grown through a multi-stakeholder approach, taking in the private sector, public sector, informal and formal … Continue reading