The international political economy of the hack: A closer look at markets for cybersecurity software
| Autor: | Tom McCourt, Patrick Burkart |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
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ComputingMilieux_LEGALASPECTSOFCOMPUTING 050801 communication & media studies Computer security computer.software_genre Internet security Politics 0508 media and communications Economics Digital rights 0505 law media_common Hacker 050502 law ComputingMilieux_THECOMPUTINGPROFESSION Human rights business.industry Communication 05 social sciences International law Public relations Cyber-security regulation International political economy ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDSOCIETY business computer |
| Zdroj: | Popular Communication. 15:37-54 |
| ISSN: | 1540-5710 1540-5702 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/15405702.2016.1269910 |
| Popis: | This article examines the development of hacking and cybersecurity software packages as commodities, based on an international political economy of vendors and clients operating in the interstices of international law. Offensive hacking and defensive cybersecurity tools offer new means for surveillance of critics, journalists, and human rights workers, especially in corrupt or authoritarian political systems. The article provides a case study of the Hacking Team, an international “cybersecurity” firm offering spyware and surveillance systems to government security agencies, which was itself hacked and “doxed” in 2015. The leak of documents contributes new knowledge of an international political economy for software products, which exploits the digital rights of targets and which could further undermine general Internet security. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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