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Some thoughts on the nature of cyber-weapons
The agents of cyber-warfare are trapped as much as liberated by the ambiguities surrounding what the nature of a cyber-weapon is at all, with what intent and for what purpose it was crafted, allowing its repercussions to seem anywhere from rapid to evanescent. Continue reading
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Cybersecurity, a horse with no name
Excerpt: When asked about the origins of The America‘s hit single ‘A horse with no name’ (1971), lyricist Dewey Bunnell said he wanted to capture the spirit of the hot, all-too familiarly dry desert around Arizona and California, which he’d drive … Continue reading
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Tagged cyber-weapons, cybersecurity, immutability, Observer Research Foundation, Sony Pictures hack, Stuxnet, territoriality, Wassenaar Arrangement, zero-day hacks
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