Trump's administration has ordered US diplomats to lobby against attempts to regulate US tech companies' handling of foreigners' data, saying in an internal diplomatic cable seen by Reuters www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
This is one of the better pieces I've seen on Venezuela and the UK approach by Patrick Wintour in the Guardian.
In an era of rapidly emerging Trumpian realism, the UK is very much hampered in its pursuit of a liberal rules-based order...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Marking in an age of generative AI is absolutely painstaking - not because I am *against* AI, but having to delve into a whole host of references to check engagement is a much more demanding task (and perhaps always should have been).
A 2000 word essay takes me at least 30 minutes to mark now.
New article from the Algorithmic Societies group at Durham where theorize prompting as "a mutation in the exercise of political power, beyond the direct command and even the more indirect ‘action at a distance’ characteristic of liberal governmentality...." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
On 12 November, we are delighted to welcome Siân John MBE to deliver the second Fred Piper Annual Information Security Lecture at @royalholloway.bsky.social.
Registration is free but mandatory - follow the link below for more information and to sign-up.
www.royalholloway.ac.uk/about-us/eve...
Phew! #CHI2026 paper submitted just in time 🎉💤
📰 Check out this new report funded by the UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology on 'Securing Converged Technologies: Insights from Subject Matter Experts'
Written by our own Dr @andrewdwyer.bsky.social and @mikaelabrough.bsky.social (CDT in Cyber Security)
www.gov.uk/government/p...
📢 New blog piece from me - Prefiguring Responsibility: The Pall Mall Process and Cyber Intrusion Capabilities - for the Research Institute for Sociotechnical Cyber Security!
riscs.org.uk/2025/08/12/p...
Funding bid submitted exploring some of the political economy of cyber power... fingers crossed as it's a potentially fantastic collaboration :D
Is anyone I know planning on attending the #AAG next year in San Fran? I'm mulling over what to do as I've been out of the geography conference circuit for a few years...
I'm delighted that with colleagues - Co-Is Lizzie Coles-Kemp and Danilo Francati - that we have been successful in the first SALIENT funding call with our project, "Fake in the Community"
A quote from me in @thetimes.com yesterday
I was perhaps being somewhat provocative, but can a self-proclaimed technical authority (the UK NCSC) be also driving market and political change?
www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog...
In the increasing discussion of 'agentic' AI, I thought about this back a few years ago with relation to computation, war and conflict...
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...
After a very eventful and reflective #CHI2025, just found out that we have been successful in more funding to continue this work!
What a great sweetener to end on!
It's more that AWS is a critical infrastructure, rather that critical infrastructure necessarily sitting on it (in that the interconnectedness of AWS and other clouds have expanded what is now considered critical too)
In Japan to present our paper, Friend or Foe? Navigating and Re-configuring "Snipers’ Alley" at #CHI2025.
This is my first time here, so if you wish to discuss 'critical' approaches to (cyber) security and privacy, please get in touch!
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Planning a conference as a lecturer is so different to a PhD...
Oh the wilds of the PhD I miss you!
A little door refresh with some recent work!
Oh wow - congratulations Lou! That's simply amazing stuff
Putting this back here because yes the deep border is everywhere, it certainly doesn’t respect “compartmentalized data” (are people really surprised that DOGE links data sources arbitrarily & violently?)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Sometimes academia can be a wild one - just been on @nickferrarilbc.bsky.social's LBC show to discuss the extraordinary leak of information on Signal on the Yemen strikes.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Our #CHI2025 paper is now on arXiv!
For those of you who wish to consider HCI and security from community-based perspective, where all actors in the 'digital by default' economy can be 'snipers' and ways of moving beyond threat models, this is for you!
arxiv.org/abs/2503.16992
The Heathrow incident shows how important information - over cyber - security is for operational resilience. It’s about the whole ‘stack.’ I also think we need to reevaluate the UK flavour of ‘risk based’ governance that is consistently used to do the minimum investment possible.
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📢 Our own @andrewdwyer.bsky.social gave evidence to the UK Parliament's Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy (JCNSS) on offensive cyber - demonstrating the ISG's key work in providing expertise to policy in information and cyber security
www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and...
we are recruiting a physical geography full professor - do contact @geodiverse.bsky.social if you need a bit of background to Oxford-University-ness (the role of the colleges here is, err, unique...). #geosky @oxfordgeography.bsky.social
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So pleased to announce the launch event for the new @blavatnikschool.bsky.social at Oxford Tech and Cyber Policy Programme.
The brilliant Richard Horne, head of the National Cyber Security Centre, will be speaking next Weds at 5pm.
Sign up in person or online! 1/2
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A good piece here on Salt and Volt Typhoon - and the limited utility of offensive cyber operations to deter.
warontherocks.com/2025/02/a-ta...
There’s likely a lot of deconfliction and coordination ongoing…
Curious reporting in the NYT’s follow to @martinmatishak.bsky.social’s scoop about Hegseth’s stand-down order on Russian cyber operation planning (www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/u...) stating that US CYBERCOM’s covert operations against Russia are being run out of the United Kingdom.
