It has been a while (April to be exact) since I posted an update about what I’ve been up to in my research. As we head into the fall semester, I suppose this is a good time to provide an update about what I’ve been doing. I haven’t actually done a lot of new writing [...]
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I had the great pleasure to appear on Community Voices with Larry Warren and Beth Fratkin this last Thursday. Community Voices is a program on KPCW, the local NPR station in Park City, Utah. We spoke for about 20 minutes about cyberwar, including the recent revelations about Gauss, Stuxnet, and Flame, as well as many [...]
[The following essay is just some quick thoughts about social media and protest. These ideas have been inspired by a series of ongoing discussions that a small group of faculty and graduate students, including myself, have been having about these issues in the Department of Communication at the University of Utah. As such, what follows [...]
My colleague Robert Gehl and I have just completed a paper that we will present at the Cyber-Surveillance in Everyday Life workshop at the University of Toronto in May. In it, we explore three case studies of what we are calling “convergence security.” These include cases of volunteer, online counterterrorists, cybersecurity intelligence analysts, and cyber-Minutemen [...]
It’s been a while since I’ve posted any original content on the blog. I cross-posted a piece I wrote for Forbes at the end of October on “How Non-Geek Government Can Make Cyber Policy,” but other than that, it’s mainly been periodic news briefs “From the Listening Post.” So, I thought I better provide an [...]