The overarching question imparting urgency to this exploration is: Can U.S.-Russian contention in cyberspace cause the two nuclear superpowers to stumble into war? In considering this question we were constantly reminded of recent comments by a prominent U.S. arms control expert: At least as dangerous as the risk of an actual cyberattack, he observed, is cyber operations’ “blurring of the line between peace and war.” Or, as Nye wrote, “in the cyber realm, the difference between a weapon and a non-weapon may come down to a single line of code, or simply the intent of a computer program’s user.”
"What are the consequences for secret organizations in a data-enriched world: are we approaching an extinction event?"
Please join the Intelligence Project for a discussion with Nigel Dakin, the UK's National Security Representative to the U.S., and Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, Director of the Intelligence Project, on the implications of the digital age for secret services across the globe.
