The Crimean Cyber-Troubles Ramp Up
The intensified Crimean crisis has seen cyber-warfare as one of its main drivers. Dozens of networks in the Ukraine are infected, government systems among them, with malicious software that secretly...
View ArticleCyber forces heat up the Crimean ‘Cold War’: Will our ‘dykes’ hold out?
There’s no escaping the growing tensions in Ukraine. A conflict on many levels has taken a violent, military turn. The digital dimension took center stage during previous conflicts involving Russia in...
View ArticlePolishing the Present, Dodging the Past
On 10 December Minister of the Interior Ronald Plasterk presented a National Human Rights Action Plan to parliament. This is a first for the Netherlands, and in doing so it joined a select group of 28...
View ArticleWatching the Watchers
Oversight of the intelligence services is now the big topic. While half the population apparently expects their phones to be tapped, politics is finally starting to rumble on the issue. Its been a long...
View ArticleSpy vs. ‘Spy’
The Atlantic Alliance has been through many upheavals in its 65-odd years. Since June this year the revelations from Edward Snowden on the communications surveillance practices of the National Security...
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