Wednesday, 18 May 2016

Sextortion as cybersecurity: Defining cyber risk too narrowly (Benjamin Wittes, Brookings)

A photo of a webcam. Picture by Diego A/Flickr

When we think of cybersecurity, we don't think of sexual violence. Sexual assault, rape, and child molestation are problems of intimate contact between individuals in close proximity to one another. By contrast, we tend think of cybersecurity as a problem of remote attacks that affect governments, major corporations, and—at an individual level—people with credit card numbers or identities to steal

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/techtank/posts/2016/05/17-sextortion-as-cybersecurity-wittes

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