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Month: August 2018

Special interests push U.S. Congress to override ICANN’s Whois policy process

Posted on by Cybersecurity, Privacy & Surveillance
Ever since ICANN’s creation, there has been a clash between the protection of personal data and its contractually-required Whois service. Under ICANN contracts, registrars were required to publish sensitive information about domain name registrants. The email addresses, names and other contact information of domain holders was available to anyone in...
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New IGP White Paper: Is It Time to Institutionalize Cyber Attribution?

Posted on by Cybersecurity, General, IG Institutions
Public attribution of cyber incidents to nation-state actors is increasing. It is a challenging and important accountability function that is often performed by a combination of threat intelligence firms or other private actors and less frequently by states. But is it time to institutionalize cyber attribution? The cybersecurity community has...
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Will The Internet Fragment?

“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.”

Jack Goldsmith, Harvard Law School

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