Securing cyberspace

Securing Cyberspace in the 21st Century

R ecent technological advances have enabled the significant growth of cyberspace, which is transforming the way citizens, corporations, and governments interact, collaborate, and conduct business. At the same time, our heavy dependence on various digital infrastructures, including the Internet, has made them strategic national assets—like land, water, and airspace—that must be safeguarded to en...

Securing Cyberspace: Realigning Economic Incentives in the Ict Value Net

Legal Cyberspace

Abstract: The paper introduces 'Legal Cyberspace' which can be regarded as a tool for exploring other legal worlds. In practical terms legal cyberspace is a computer-generated interactive graphics environment, i.e. a system of databases and knowledge-base applications rather than a specific application. Developed from difficulties gaining access to foreign legal material for a research project ...

Hacking Cyberspace

Knowledge about cyberspace is shaped and delimited by the questions we ask and the kinds of inquiries we pursue. Questioning, of course, is never objective or neutral. As Martin Heidegger demonstrates, a question, no matter how carefully articulated, necessarily harbors preconceptions and pre-understandings that direct and regulate inquiry (24). When we ask, for example, whether cyberspace port...

Terraforming Cyberspace

During the 1940s, under the pseudonym of Will Stewart, Jack Williamson published a series of fictional stories describing a process for attaching atmospheres to planets in order to make them capable of sustaining life. ‘Terraforming,’ the term he coined for this activity was first picked up by other science fiction writers. Eventually, it captured the imagination of a small but zealous core of ...