ONI Global Summit 2010
Online registration is required and can be done online here
Technology Review “Militarizing Cyberspace”
I wrote a short piece for Technology Review magazine here. The issue also has a lengthy feature on cyber security issues called “Moore’s Outlaws,” which can be found here.
NetChange: Canada, check your privacy settings
Net Change Week 2010 – Canada, check your privacy settings from MaRS Discovery District on Vimeo.
I participated in the MaRs NetChange panel on the topic of “Canada, check your privacy settings,” with Ontario’s Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian and moderated by Jesse Hirsh.
New Cyber Chief Outlines Strategy
Thursday, June 10, 2010
New Cyber Chief Outlines Strategy
Keith Alexander explains how the U.S. will fight espionage and crime.
By David Talbot
Read the full article here.
Deibert says one major question now is how to preserve privacy amid such efforts. “The key questions, as always, will concern the substance of those negotiations: will we see a charter for global cyberspace that protects and preserves this domain as an open, global commons of information? Or will we see the further imposition of digital controls, nationalized communications spaces, and widespread surveillance?”
NED Event May 25, 2010
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is hosting a panel conversation for the OpenNet Initiative’s new volume Access Controlled. Attending the panel discussion will be Ron Deibert, John Palfrey and Rafal Rohozinski from the ONI, and Bob Boorstin from Google. Moderating the discussion will be Mr. Moises Naim, editor of Foreign Policy magazine. Details are here
Access Controlled book website (and review)
We have a new website for the ONI’s latest book, Access Controlled, which can be found here. We also have our first review, by Andy Greenberg of Forbes.
Toward a Cyber Security Strategy (Vanguard)
Ron Deibert, “Toward a Cyber Security Strategy,” Vanguard (March/April 2010), pp.10-11.
Civil Society and Democracy in Iran conference
I participated in the University of Toronto’s Centre for Ethics Civil society and Democracy In Iran workshop, held 14-15 May 2010 at the University of Toronto. I was participating in the panel on “Exploring the Youth Movement in Iran,” and spoke about the challenges of cyberspace controls for youth activism in and outside of Iran and in particular among the green movement.
Harvard-MIT Joint Seminar Explorations in Cyber International Relations
I am in Boston for a presentation to the Harvard-MIT Joint Seminar Explorations in Cyber International Relations at MIT. The title of my presentation is “The Geopolitics of Cyberspace: From Militarization to Arms Control.”
IPSI 2010 Research Symposium
I am participating in the IPSI 2010 Research Symposium at the University of Toronto. The theme of the conference is “Developing a Trusted Cyber Infrastructure
for Canadians.” I will be speaking about our research on cyber espionage (although the organizers gave me the curious title for my talk of “Detecting and disabling botnets.” (As an IR theorist and political scientist, the only botnets I’ve discovered are Realists — and they can’t be disabled.) Looks to be a good day of interesting discussions.