Cyber attacks require distributed deterrence involving private and public actors. Can the classics of international law help?
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This special issue brings together the best policy-oriented papers presented at the 2017 Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) conference in Tartu, Estonia.
This paper examines three historical imaginaries associated with encryption, considering how they are intertwined in contemporary policy debates.
Chilling effect
The Netzpolitik.org affair: a turning point
After more than 50 years, the issue of treason has returned with a bang onto Germany's public agenda. The Netzpolitik.org affair might go down in history as a turning point.
Cyber warfare
A hawkish call to cyber arms
Monika Ermert reports from the Munich Security Conference, where experts ponder over hybrid and cyber war.
Internet governance
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The World Economic Forum talks internet governance. Who listens?
The World Economic Forum (WEF) starts on Wednesday in Switzerland. Count on internet governance to become a trending topic.
Hacktivists 1.0 were Anonymous mask wearing outsiders. Subsequent generations are made up of insiders who use privacy enhancing technologies to hide their identities, to keep power under control or to disengage.
Edward Snowden can be proud. He has triggered the technical community to revisit cryptography in hardware and algorithms and, standards in internet protocols. Monika Ermert provides a snapshop of latest initiatives presented at RIPE 68.
Internet governance
World internet cup in Brazil - a review
In an ambitious move, the Brazilian government, technical and civil society organised a meeting to address key issues of internet governance. While not everybody was happy with the final result, process-wise it was a landmark meeting.
Civil disobedience is a familiar and well established phenomenon in Western societies. Currently, this concept of political action is challenged by new practices evolving on and around the internet. This paper focusses on the question of whether several forms of digital civil disobedience are legitimate.
