政府はサイバー戦争を理解していない—必要なのはハッカーだ

Kim Zetter’s account of Stuxnet, the digital weapon deployed by the US and Israel against Iran’s nuclear facilities in 2011, is an engaging read at the nexus of technology, global politics and the changing modern battlefield. The book is accessible for non-technical readers and provides a look into one of the first well-known, successful operations in cyber warfare.

Forget the so-called "unicorn" startups of Silicon Valley—in just a few years, twenty-something Ross Ulbricht built the Silk Road, a digital black market worth $1.2B in global transactions. This article chronicles the rise and fall of the market and its creator, showing the impact an individual can have challenging global law enforcement through new technology.

This article is my updated look at the challenges facing governments in policing the darker parts of the Internet. Like offline crime, governments may need to shift to more progressive approaches, like harm reduction, over interdiction and encryption backdoors. Breaking technologies like Tor to combat crime could impact the opportunities they provide for safe, private access to the Internet in authoritarian countries.

This keynote by Dan Geer helps contextualize peer-to-peer security and why it matters in the digital age. "We are all data collectors, data keepers, data analysts. Some citizens do it explicitly; some citizens have it done for them by robots," Greer says. "To be clear, we are not just a society of informants, we are becoming an intelligence community of a second sort."