Cyber & Technology
Did 2020 Break the Internet?
Amy Robinson, Jim Waldo Wed, Jun 9, 2021, 10:30 AM
An examination of network demands in the face of the coronavirus.
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Foreign Policy Essay
Five Ways Telecommunications Companies Can Fight Internet Shutdowns
David Sullivan Sun, Aug 23, 2020, 10:01 AM
Telecommunications companies and rights groups can accomplish more by working together to push back internet disruptions.
International Law
Submarine Cables in the Law of Naval Warfare
James Kraska Fri, Jul 10, 2020, 8:01 AM
The interdependence of global submarine communication systems means that a break in the vast network of seabed cables during armed conflict could have cascading effects on internet access. Yet the law of naval warfare is underdeveloped in this area.
Coronavirus
Why The Internet Didn’t Break—But It Still Failed Millions
Tom Wheeler Fri, Apr 3, 2020, 11:47 AM
Tom Wheeler explains how the internet’s design prevents spikes in traffic during the COVID-19 pandemic from slowing everything to a halt.
White Supremacy
The Iron March Data Dump Provides a Window Into How White Supremacists Communicate and Recruit
Jacques Singer-Emery, Rex Bray, III Thu, Feb 27, 2020, 8:00 AM
Approximately two years after the white supremacist and neo-Nazi website Ironmarch.org was shut down, an anonymous individual posted a database of all user activity tracked by the site.
Readings
The Vulnerable Cables Undergirding the Internet
Kenneth Anderson Sun, Nov 8, 2015, 6:23 PM
Amid concerns of cybersecurity and cyberwarfare, there is a related security topic that receives far less attention: vulnerabilities of the physical cables that enable telecommunications traffic and the Internet. Journalist Kate Murphy has a good, brief, non-technical analysis of the problem in today’s NYT, "The Cyberthreat Under the Street"(NYT, Sunday Review, November 8, 2015).