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Max Smeets
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Writing 'RANSOM WAR' - @ETH_en @cyber_conflict @EuropeanCyber @BindingHook. Previously @UniofOxford & @StanfordCISAC. Author of 'NO SHORTCUTS'
Sep 8, 2022 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
Much praise from the (policy) community with respect to Albania cutting diplomatic ties with Iran over the July cyber attacks.

But there are lot of open questions here regarding scale, response & motive

A thread 🧵 First, what this cyber attack truly "unprecedented" in scale? And was this attack 'massive'?

whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…
Jan 11, 2022 • 11 tweets • 1 min read
I was reflecting a bit on what has been published in the (academic) field of cyber conflict, and tried to organize my thoughts into 2 categories: what issues are highly contested vs widely accepted amongst scholars?

Mini thread on what I came up with thus far: 1. What are statements that are highly contested?
A. Cyber operations provide strategic value
B. Cyber operations are novel instruments of power
Nov 22, 2021 • 19 tweets • 9 min read
I realized actually quite a few academic books were published in 2021 on cyber conflict/competition relevant topics – or will be published in 2022. Decided to run a short thread with books I’m aware of (& publicly listed): 1. @pncornish (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Cyber Security, 2021, global.oup.com/academic/produ…
Oct 28, 2021 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
Main insights we wrote down from FY2021 and FY2022: FY2021:"The DoD has also increased investments in [..] cyber operations to boost resiliency against adversaries, as evidenced by standing up the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center to adapt to the pending growth of machine learning, and to capitalize on big data.."
Oct 28, 2021 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Working on an in-depth study of the US spending on cyber ops & cybersecurity infrastructure with Brita Achberger (with main focus on DoD RDT&E spending). Going through the DoD docs from 2008 until 2020, we found 75 relevant budget items across services. Verifying and analyzing this data has been a lot harder than we initially expected (items moving, lack of clear item descriptions, cross-item analysis, classification etc.) Some preliminary graphs.
Sep 6, 2021 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
A few (initial) general observations about recent scholarship in the field of cyber conflict: 1. Massive increase in European journals & scholars publishing on cyber conflict related topics - eg @CSP_journal , @EJIntSec, @BJPolS
Sep 6, 2021 • 32 tweets • 14 min read
If you'd like to keep track of the latest scholarship in the field of cyber conflict, here's a list of all the articles published in the top 150 Poli Sci journals from Jan 2020 - Jul 2021: @Prof_J_Branch , "What's in a Name? Metaphors and Cybersecurity" 2021 - On the cyber domain as a foundational metaphor. cambridge.org/core/journals/…
Mar 22, 2020 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
Musing about the differences and similarities between paleontologists vs. threat intel – a thread with above all unanswered Qs. 1/7 In a wonderful TEDx talk palaeontologist Jack Horner asks the question: “where are all the baby dinosaurs?” "Why is there no smaller version of a Tyrannosaurus Rex in museums?"