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Hacking Back Is Ethical in the Cyber Frontier
Patrick Lin, Ph.D., is the director of the Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, where he is an associate philosophy professor. When cyberattacks...
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Risky Business: When Governments Do Not Attribute State-Sponsored Cyberattacks
Kristen Eichensehr is an Assistant Professor at UCLA School of Law, an affiliate scholar at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, and a term member of the Council on Foreign...
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Campaign 2016: Donald Trump on Cybersecurity
Alex Grigsby is the assistant director for the Digital and Cyberspace Policy program and David O’Connor is an intern at the Council on Foreign Relations. After giving widely ridiculed remarks about...
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A Web of Trust: Toward a Safe, Secure, Reliable and Open Internet
This is an excerpt of Look Who’s Watching: Surveillance, Treachery and Trust Online by Fen Osler Hampson and Eric Jardine published by CIGI Press. You can find it now on Amazon. There is widespread...
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For the People and By the People: Shaping Norms for the Internet of Things
Susan Ariel Aaronson is a research professor and cross-disciplinary fellow at George Washington University. Ethan Wham is social media consultant and a member of the greater Washington, DC chapter of...
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When Naming Cyber Threat Actors Does More Harm Than Good
Max Smeets is a D.Phil candidate and cyber research affiliate at the University of Oxford. His work analyzes the proliferation of cyber weapons. Cybersecurity firms, despite their increasing prominence...
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Africans Want Cross-Border Data Access Reform, But They Might Get Left Out
Mailyn Fidler is a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. You can follow her @mailynfidler. At the first session of the 2016 Forum on Internet Freedom in...
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We Should Not Fear a Fragmented Internet
Hugo Zylberberg is a fellow at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. You can follow him @hugozylb. Several high-profile reports have recently lamented the fragmentation...
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How Much Does a Cyber Weapon Cost? Nobody Knows
Max Smeets is a D.Phil candidate and research affiliate of the Cyber Studies Programme at the University of Oxford. His work analyzes the proliferation of cyber weapons. Can a non-state actor take down...
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Russia Gains an Upper Hand in the Cyber Norms Debate
Robert Morgus is a policy analyst with New America’s Cybersecurity Initiative and International Security Program and he is the co-author of the recently published Graphic Guide to Cyber Norms. You can...
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The Cybersecurity Dilemma: Where Thucydides Meets Cyberspace
Ben Buchanan is a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Cybersecurity Project. His first book, The Cybersecurity Dilemma, was published by Oxford University Press in 2017. You can follow him...
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China’s Big Data Push Runs Into Orwell and Red Tape
Lorand Laskai is a research associate in Asia studies program at the Council on Foreign Relations. You can follow him @lorandlaskai. Like most policymakers around the world, the leadership of the...
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President Trump’s Unlikely Effect on the U.S.-EU Tech Relationship
Marietje Schaake is a member of the European Parliament from the Netherlands. You can follow her @MarietjeSchaake The contrast between the early days of the Trump and Obama administrations could not be...
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What’s Next for ICANN in the Absence of U.S. Oversight? An Interview With Kal...
The United States relinquished its stewardship role over the internet last year, to the celebration of some and the consternation of others. Kal Raustiala, author of “An Internet Whole and Free” in the...
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Does Free Wi-Fi Improve Internet Accessibility in South Africa?
Chenai Chair and Broc Rademan are researchers at Research ICT Africa, a public-interest research organization that examines information and communication technology policy in Africa. You can find them...
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The Link Between Internet Access and Economic Growth Is Not as Strong as You...
Mark Graham, Nicolas Friederici and Sanna Ojanperä are researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute. They recently published The Impact of Connectivity in Africa: Grand Visions and the Mirage of...
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South Africa Introduces Revised Cybercrime Legislation, Acknowledging Criticism
Mailyn Fidler is a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. You can follow her @mailynfidler. In February 2017, South Africa introduced a new cybercrime bill...
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When China’s White-Hat Hackers Go Patriotic
Lorand Laskai is a research associate in Asia studies program at the Council on Foreign Relations. You can follow him @lorandlaskai. Only hours after China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA)...
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On the Internet, Nobody Knows That You’re A Russian Bot
Robert Gorwa is a graduate student at the University of Oxford and a member of the Oxford Internet Institute’s computational propaganda research team. Following the hacking of the U.S. Democratic...
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Hacking Defense and Diplomacy in Silicon Valley
Scott Hartley is a venture capitalist and term member at the Council on Foreign Relations. His new book, The Fuzzy and the Techie (Houghton Mifflin), comes out in April. You can follow him...
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China and the United States Have an Eerily Similar Approach to Data Sovereignty
Lincoln Davidson is an analyst at Ergo, a New York-based research and advisory firm. You can follow him on Twitter at @dvdsndvdsn. In an article published on Lawfare earlier this week, Susan Hennessey...
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Where Speech Goes, Repression Follows: The Global Trend of Criminalizing...
Nani Jansen Reventlow is a human rights lawyer with Doughty Street Chambers in London and a Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Jonathan McCully is...
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Takeaways From the EWI Cyberspace Cooperation Summit
Bruce McConnell is the Global Vice President of the EastWest Institute. He leads the organization’s Cooperation in Cyberspace Initiative. On March 14-16, the EastWest Institute (EWI), in partnership...
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Why Policymakers Should Care About Weak Digital Infrastructure Abroad
Mirko Hohmann is a Project Manager and Alexander Pirang is a non-resident Fellow with the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) in Berlin. You can follow Hohmann @mirkohohmann. Last month, INTERPOL...
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The French Court Case That Threatens to Bring the “Right to be Forgotten”...
Nani Jansen Reventlow is a human rights lawyer with Doughty Street Chambers in London and a Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. You can follow her...
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Report Watch Vol. II: Tracking Digital and Cyber Scholarship So You Don’t...
Alex Grigsby is the assistant director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program and Lorand Laskai is a research associate in the Asia Program at the Council on Foreign Relations. You can follow...
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Europe Is Developing Offensive Cyber Capabilities. The United States Should...
Jeppe T. Jacobsen is a Ph.D. candidate at the Danish Institute for International Studies and the University of Southern Denmark. He previously worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark as a...
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If Congress Dismantles Dodd-Frank, It Should Not Ignore Systemic Cyber Risk
Alex Lloyd George is a research associate at the Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Ever since Donald Trump’s election victory, financiers and free-marketeers...
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Getting Intelligence Agencies to Adapt to Life Out of the Shadows
Jamie Collier is a Cyber Security DPhil Candidate and a Research Affiliate with the Cyber Studies Programme, University of Oxford. You can follow him @jscollier93. Gone are the days when spy agencies...
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What Emmanuel Macron’s Victory Means for French and U.S. Tech
Alex Grigsby is the assistant director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program at the Council on Foreign Relations. Yesterday, Emmanuel Macron won the French presidency–the youngest French head of...
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