“In Conversation”

INTRODUCTION Computer criminals armed with ransomware were able to hold U.S. drivers hostage earlier this month. The Colonial Pipeline attack had such dramatic real-world results that the simmering ransomware crisis has boiled over.  It’s impossible to ignore now. But what does that really mean? Ransomware criminals are raking in the [Keep reading]

INTRODUCTION Perhaps you were a holdout against the notion that something is terribly wrong with the Internet. The events surrounding Jan. 6 — both the plot to attack the Capitol and tech giants’ reaction to it — surely make that position harder to defend. The argument that democracy is under [Keep reading]

INTRODUCTION:  As cries of censorship,”de-platforming” and domestic terrorism wash over the Internet, it’s time to have a long-postponed conversation about free speech and moderation in the age of the digital megaphone.  There are no easy answers. Donald Trump has pushed many Internet-age values to their limit. Duke University’s Phil Napoli [Keep reading]

INTRODUCTION Bitcoin is back, soaring 150% in 2020, and on Wednesday reached heights it hadn’t seen since 2017. Of course, if you dealt with a ransomware gang in the past three years, you know Bitcoin never left. You might have missed the news recently, overshadowed as it was by the [Keep reading]

INTRODUCTION Rhonda Foxx is the newly-minted Head of Social Equity Policies & Engagements at Intel. Before that, she was chief of staff for  Rep. Alma Adams (D-N.C.) and ran for Congress earlier this year. During a recent talk at Duke University, she called the current pandemic “a period of great reset.”  It’s [Keep reading]

INTRODUCTION In the U.S. media guilty of misinformation on disinformation? As election day fast approaches, election hacking continues to attract lots of attention. It’s a vague term that has been used to describe everything from nation-state actors changing voter registration records to politicians discrediting mail-in ballots. Perhaps nothing has caused [Keep reading]