Lawfare Archive: Ben Buchanan on 'The Hacker and the State'
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🗓️ 10 June 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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From February 26, 2020: Ben Buchanan is a professor at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and a scholar on cybersecurity and statecraft. He has a new book out this week: “The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics." Jack Goldsmith sat down with Buchanan to talk about Ben’s new book, about the so-called name-and-shame of Justice Department indictments, and about the various reasons why states engage in offensive cyber operations.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:40.7 | I'm GeoCocotalkas with an episode from the LawFair Archive for June 10, 2023. |
| 0:46.6 | This week at LawFair, various articles and podcasts analyzed new developments in the |
| 0:51.3 | realm of cyberspace. |
| 0:53.1 | Did house cybersecurity strategies, developments in AI regulation and potential bills to increase |
| 0:58.5 | data protection and privacy. |
| 1:00.7 | For today's Archive episode, I picked an episode from February 2020 in which Jack Goldsmith |
| 1:06.0 | sat down with Ben Buchanan to discuss his book, The Hacker and the State, Cyberattacks |
| 1:11.1 | and the new normal of Geopolitics. |
| 1:13.8 | In the episode, they discussed the so-called name and shame of Justice Department indictments, |
| 1:18.5 | the diverse reasons why states conduct cyberattacks and war. |
| 1:25.5 | I'm Jacob Schultz and this is the LawFair podcast bonus edition February 26, 2020. |
| 1:37.9 | Ben Buchanan is a professor at the Georgetown University School Foreign Service and a scholar |
| 1:43.0 | on cybersecurity and state craft. |
| 1:45.6 | He has a new book out this week, The Hacker and the State, Cyberattacks and the new normal |
| 1:51.3 | of Geopolitics. |
| 1:53.3 | Jack Goldsmith sat down with Buchanan to talk about his new book about the so-called name |
| 1:58.1 | and shame strategy of Justice Department indictments and about the various reasons why states |
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