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Tornado Cash Is Not Free Speech. It’s a Golem – with Bruce Schneier

October 13, 2022 Lawfare with Bruce Schneier

In August, the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned the cryptocurrency platform Tornado Cash, a virtual currency “mixer” designed to make it ...

Essay

Rechanneling Beliefs: How Information Flows Help or Hinder Democracy with Bruce Schneier

May 24, 2021 Stavros Niarchos Foundation Report with Bruce Schneier

This year, we need to start fixing American democracy. On the technical level, 2020 saw exceptionally successful elections under exceptionally difficult circumstances. People voted in ...

Essay

Grassroots’ Bot Campaigns are Coming. Governments Don’t Have a Plan to Stop Them with Bruce Schneier

May 20, 2021 Washington Post with Bruce Schneier

This month, the New York state attorney general issued a report on a scheme by “U.S. Companies and Partisans [to] Hack Democracy.” This wasn’t another ...

Essay

What Makes Trump’s Subversion Efforts So Alarming? His Collaborators – with Bruce Schneier

November 23, 2020 New York Times with Bruce Schneier

Last Thursday, Rudy Giuliani, a Trump campaign lawyer, alleged a widespread voting conspiracy involving Venezuela, Cuba and China. Another lawyer, Sidney Powell, argued that Mr. ...

Boston Review Symposium Lead Essay

“Democracy’s Dilemma” with responses from Riana Pfefferkorn, Joseph Nye, Anna Grzymala-Busse, Allison Berke, Jason Healey, Astra Taylor and danah boyd, and a reply to the responses by Henry Farrell and Bruce Schneier. with Bruce Schneier

May 15, 2019 Boston Review Symposium Lead Essay with Bruce Schneier

The Internet was going to set us all free. At least, that is what U.S. policy makers, pundits, and scholars believed in the 2000s. The ...

DefusingDis.info

Defending Democratic Mechanisms and Institutions against Disinformation Attacks – with Bruce Schneier

January 28, 2019 DefusingDis.info with Bruce Schneier

To better understand influence attacks, we proposed an approach that models democracy itself as an information system and explains how democracies are vulnerable to certain ...

Essay

The Most Damaging Election Disinformation Campaign Came From Donald Trump, Not Russia with Bruce Schneier

November 19, 2018 Vice with Bruce Schneier

On November 4, 2016, the hacker “Guccifer 2.0,” a front for Russia’s military intelligence service, claimed in a blogpost that the Democrats were likely to ...

Essay

Information Attacks on Democracies – with Bruce Schneier

November 15, 2018 Lawfare with Bruce Schneier

Democracy is an information system. That’s the starting place of our new paper: “Common-Knowledge Attacks on Democracy.” In it, we look at democracy through the ...

Henry Farrell

Tornado Cash Is Not Free Speech. It’s a Golem – with Bruce Schneier

Rechanneling Beliefs: How Information Flows Help or Hinder Democracy with Bruce Schneier

Grassroots’ Bot Campaigns are Coming. Governments Don’t Have a Plan to Stop Them with Bruce Schneier

What Makes Trump’s Subversion Efforts So Alarming? His Collaborators – with Bruce Schneier

“Democracy’s Dilemma” with responses from Riana Pfefferkorn, Joseph Nye, Anna Grzymala-Busse, Allison Berke, Jason Healey, Astra Taylor and danah boyd, and a reply to the responses by Henry Farrell and Bruce Schneier. with Bruce Schneier

Defending Democratic Mechanisms and Institutions against Disinformation Attacks – with Bruce Schneier

The Most Damaging Election Disinformation Campaign Came From Donald Trump, Not Russia with Bruce Schneier

Information Attacks on Democracies – with Bruce Schneier

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