Urs Gasser, Harvard Law School professor and executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, delivered a presentation last month on “The Future of Cybersecurity” at the Asian Leadership Conference, an annual event bringing together leaders across the globe to discuss and provide solutions to Asia’s most pressing challenges.
Monthly Archives: June 2016
To cap, or not to cap – Taipei Times, 16 June 2016
Doc Searls, a journalist and author who has served as a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, also defended the capitalization.
“The Internet is like the Universe,” Searls said in a blog post. “There is just one of it. There are no other examples. Formalizing the lower-case ‘internet,’ for whatever reason, dismisses what’s transcendent and singular about the Internet we have: a whole that is more, and other, than a sum of parts.”
Ethiopia: Welcome to the Ethiopian Wide Web – allAfrica.com | 15 June 2016
In 2007, Jonathan Zittrain and John Palfrey of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Oxford Internet Institute, cited increases in state-control and repression of public sovereignty as the frameworks of a “balkanized” Internet.
Source: Ethiopia: Welcome to the Ethiopian Wide Web – allAfrica.com
Is it Internet or internet? Debate rages on downshift | Yahoo! Tech, 13 June 2016
Doc Searls, a journalist and author who has served as a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, also defended the capitalization.
Source: Is it Internet or internet? Debate rages on downshift
At metaLAB, curiosity meets whimsy | Harvard Gazette, 3 June 2016
the Harvard metaLAB, a design studio and creative research lab affiliated with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, projects come together as digital art installations in venues such as the Harvard Art Museums.
Source: At metaLAB, curiosity meets whimsy | Harvard Gazette
Euro agencies on encryption backdoors: Create ‘decryption without weakening’ | Network World, 26 May 2016
A study of encryption platforms worldwide earlier this year concurred. “The smart criminals that any mandatory backdoors are supposed to catch – terrorists, organized crime and so on – will easily be able to evade those backdoors,” according to “A Worldwide Survey of Encryption Products” written by Bruce Schneier of Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, independent security researcher Kathleen Seidel, and Saranya Vijayakumar, a Harvard student.
Source: Euro agencies on encryption backdoors: Create ‘decryption without weakening’ | Network World