In this video, Schneier frames the IoT as: “a global decentralized robot called the Internet.” In our view, this robot is run mainly by Internet governance. Internet security and governance issues will be the same in the Internet of things, but the governance and security issues will have much higher, physical...
The impact of ICANN’s U.S. jurisdiction has been a subject of intense debate. Some say it doesn’t matter, some say it does. The time to provide evidence of domain name related problems caused by ICANN’s jurisdiction has arrived. If your domain names were confiscated because you live in a country...
IGP led two thought-provoking discussions of the relationship between cybersecurity and Internet governance in Brussels last week. An event at the Center for European Policy Studies (CEPS) opened with Milton Mueller’s thoughts on “Cybersecurity as an Internet governance problem,” followed by Jan Neutze’s talk on Microsoft's call for a Digital...
Guest post by Ayden Férdeline (@ferdeline) It’s a simple message: the At-Large Advisory Committee isn’t fit for purpose. That’s the conclusion that external consultants ITEMS International have drawn in their draft report, now out for public comment, on the review of the ICANN At-Large community. The 90-page report draws on...
Guest Blog Post by Carter Yagemann, Cybersecurity Researcher and Graduate Student at The Institute for Information Security & Privacy (IISP), Georgia Tech. A few weeks ago I had the privilege of attending the RSA conference as an RSAC Security Scholar. It was my first time attending the conference, and the...
Microsoft President Brad Smith delivered a remarkable speech at the RSA Conference February 14, 2017. Two ideas, two big memes, shot out into media reports: 1) we need a "digital Geneva Convention" that would protect civilians from nation-state attacks; 2) private tech firms should become a "neutral digital Switzerland" that...
It seems not a day goes by without another routing incident occurring. Whether a resource hijack, a route leak, or an entire network outage, the Internet’s routing system is like any other complex system involving multiple actors each making decisions reflecting their own processes, incentives and costs. In theory, adopting...
One of President Trump’s planned Executive Orders was on Cybersecurity. Two weeks ago, a draft was circulating – but it was never signed and released. Last week, a new draft was leaked. While we can’t verify its validity, the leaker is a well-connected Beltway consultant with ties to the Heritage...
We join the chorus of protest and outrage caused by the Trump administration’s Executive Order on immigration. In the name of protecting the country from terrorism, the Order restricted travel from 7 arbitrarily-designated countries, and has even refused entry to people with well-established legal immigrant status, such as Green Card...
“In characteristically rigorous fashion, Mueller’s outstanding book punctures the alarmist myth of Internet fragmentation and helps us to understand what is really at stake as nations and other groups vie for power over the Internet.”
