Tag: cybersecurity

  • Asia in the State of the Union: Bringing jobs home and—psst!—cybersecurity

    UPDATED at bottom with further comments The State of the Union speech this year was not suited for heavy lifting in foreign policy, and it had almost nothing to say about policy in the Asia-Pacific. According to the prepared speech, President Obama mentioned a push for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, responded to North Korea’s recent nuclear…

  • On the weaponization of information technology: a great paragraph

    From Milton Mueller, amidst a controversial pair of blog posts on activism directed toward blocking the diffusion of information and communication technology that can be used for surveillance, a great paragraph: For the past five years, some of us have been challenging the rampant securitization of the Internet by a cyber-military-industrial complex still looking for…

  • Why talk of a U.S.–China 'Cyber Cold War' is nonsense

    When anti-China rhetoric combines with computer security paranoia, we get outlandish statements and alarmism. In my first piece for Al Jazeera English, I argue that the idea of a “Cyber Cold War” is a hallucination: In January 2010, a Google executive announced “a new approach to China” in a blog post, revealing that the firm had…