[Metalab] Fr 6.12 Metaday #62 - Karin Kosina: Wargames in the Fifth Domain: Mutually Assured Pwnage

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    on Friday, December 6 2013, 19:30 (20:00)
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== Wargames in the Fifth Domain: Mutually Assured Pwnage ==

// A critical look at what Cold War analogies can and cannot teach us about "cyberwar".


Lecturer: Karin Kosina,
          http://kyrah.net/
          https://twitter.com/kyrah

"Cyberwar" has become a thing. Unfortunately, no-one seems to be totally clear on what
that thing really is. And so there has been a flurry of attempts to make sense of the
brave new world of warfare in the fifth domain by likening it to other, better-understood
models of conflict - most notably: the Cold War. To what degree do such comparisons make
sense though?

This is not a technical talk about the latest 0day. It is not a historical talk about the
Cold War either. (Though you will hopefully learn a few interesting technical details and
historical anecdotes from it anyway.) It is an attempt to clarify what the heck that
over-used term "cyberwar" is actually supposed to mean, and to contribute to a critical
discussion about what the militarisation of cyberspace means for us as a society.


Speaker: Karin Kosina, virtually known as kyrah, worked for 10+ years in R&D before
deciding to go into international relations. She wrote her master's thesis at the
Diplomatic Academy of Vienna on Wargames in the Fifth Domain, arguing that "cyberwar"
is vastly over-hyped.


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