Dr Herb Lin, Senior Research Scholar,
Stanford University, will speak on "
Cyber-enabled information warfare and the end of the Enlightenment" at the Australian National University in Canberra, 12:30 pm 5 December 2017. His "
On Cyber-Enabled Information/Influence Warfare and Manipulation" with Jackie Kerr is to be published in the
Oxford Handbook of Cybersecurity (2018).
"The West has no peer competitors in
conventional military power. But its adversaries are increasingly
turning to asymmetric methods for engaging in conflict. In this public
seminar, Dr Herb Lin will address cyber-enabled information warfare
(CEIW) as a form of conflict or confrontation to which the Western
democracies are particularly vulnerable.
CEIW applies the features of modern
information and communications technology to age-old techniques of
propaganda, deception, and chaos production to confuse, mislead, and
perhaps to influence the choices and decisions that the adversary makes.
A recent example of CEIW can be seen in the Russian hacks on the US
presidential election in 2016. CEIW is a hostile activity, or at least
an activity that is conducted between two parties whose interests are
not well-aligned, but it does not constitute warfare in the sense that
international law or domestic institutions construe it. Some approaches
to counter CEIW show some promise of having some modest but valuable
defensive effect. If better solutions for countering CEIW waged against
free and democratic societies are not forthcoming, societal discourse
will no longer be grounded in reason and objective reality – an outcome
that can fairly be called the end of the Enlightenment."
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