Derek E. Bambauer (Arizona): Schrodinger's Cybersecurity. From The Economist, a special report on cyber-security. Lillian Ablon and Martin C. Libicki on the Wild Wild Web: For now, cybercrime has the upper hand in its duel with the law. Glen Fuller on “cyber-safety”: What are we actually talking about? Reddit is a failed state: T.C. Sottek on how the “front page of the internet” is run by warlords. Henry Farrell on why Reddit sucks: Some scientific evidence. From The Fibreculture Journal, Vyshali Manivannan (Rutgers): Tits or GTFO: The Logics of Misogyny on 4chan’s Random; and Frances Shaw (Sydney): Still “Searching for Safety Online”: Collective Strategies and Discursive Resistance to Trolling and Harassment in a Feminist Network. Women harassed out of their homes, mass shooting threats: How #Gamergate morphed into a monster. Kathy Sierra on why the trolls will always win. Helen Lewis on how the battle against internet trolls shows that a compelling story will always beat cold, hard facts. From Vox, confessions of a former internet troll, by Emmett Rensin. Nathaniel Tkacz (Warwick): Trolls, Peers and the Diagram of Collaboration. Ryan M. Milner (Charleston): Hacking the Social: Internet Memes, Identity Antagonism, and the Logic of Lulz. Bert-Jaap Koops (Tilburg): The Trouble with European Data Protection Law. Jeffrey Toobin on Google and the right to be forgotten. Cory Doctorow summarizes the problem with the idea that sensitive personal information can be removed responsibly from big data: computer scientists are pretty sure that's impossible. Now that everything is connected, everything will get hacked. We wanted the web for free — but the price is deep surveillance. Kevin Roose on the rise of the hacker bounty hunter. Meet Google’s security princess: As Google's top hacker, Parisa Tabriz thinks like a criminal — and manages the brilliant, wonky guys on her team with the courage and calm of a hostage negotiator. Klint Finley on why it’s time to encrypt the entire Internet.
