The Mirror Has Two Faces: Terrorist Use of the Internet and the Challenges of Governing Cyberspace

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Author(s): Shefali Virkar (University of Oxford, UK)
Copyright: 2016
Pages: 27
Source title: National Security and Counterintelligence in the Era of Cyber Espionage
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Eugenie de Silva (Booz Allen Hamilton, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9661-7.ch001

Keywords: Cyber Warfare & Terrorism / Cyber Warfare and Cyber Terrorism / Information Science Reference / Security & Forensics

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The Information Revolution has greatly impacted how nation-states and societies relate to one another; particularly wherein new, or hitherto less powerful, actors have emerged to bypass and influence established channels of power, altering the manner in which nation-states define their interests, power bases, security, and increasingly, their innate ability to govern and control flows of information. This book chapter investigates the ‘winner-takes-all' hypothesis relative to how the Internet, its associated platforms, and technologies have been harnessed to enhance the activities of both transnational terrorist networks and the organisations, clusters, and individuals dedicated to researching and combating them. The issues covered by this research raise important questions about the nature and the use of technology by state and non-state actors in an asymmetric ‘information war'; of how ideas of terrorism, surveillance, and censorship are conceptualised, and manner in which the role of the nation-state in countering and pre-empting threats to national security has been redefined.

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