Internet

Uncle Spam Wants You!

Can the U.S. military find a few thousand good hackers?

BY JOHN ARQUILLA | FEBRUARY 5, 2013

The First Lab Results Are In

Democracy Lab is celebrating its first anniversary. Here are some of the things we've learned over the past year -- and where we're headed in year two.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JANUARY 31, 2013

Our Man in Havana

Was USAID planning to overthrow Castro?

BY PETER KORNBLUH | JANUARY 25, 2013

Happy 10th Birthday, DHS

Are we any safer now?

BY THAD ALLEN | JANUARY 24, 2013

The New Monopolies

Have America's big Internet companies become too powerful?

BY DANIEL ALTMAN | JANUARY 7, 2013

The Year in Intelligence

And the most important national security story you missed in 2012.

BY AMY ZEGART | JANUARY 2, 2013

A Network of Dictators

There's a fight brewing for the future of the Internet.

BY JAMES A. LEWIS | DECEMBER 21, 2012

Access Denied

The United Nations couldn't control the Internet even if it wanted to.

BY JOHN ARQUILLA | DECEMBER 10, 2012

Lost in Cyberspace

Why the State Department’s proposed new Twitter restrictions are a terrible idea.

BY WILL MCCANTS | DECEMBER 10, 2012

Is it Legal for the Military to Patrol American Networks?

Posse Comitatus meets the 21st century.

BY TIM MAURER | DECEMBER 5, 2012

Barbarians at the Gate

Are Russia and China trying to take over the Internet? Probably. But so far they aren't having much luck.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | DECEMBER 5, 2012

4 Digital Threats to Worry About

From hacktivism to cyberwarfare, the dangers that define the digital age.

BY EUGENE KASPERSKY | DECEMBER 2012

Five Myths about the Chinese Internet

The Great Firewall is neither great, nor a firewall. Discuss.

BY EVELINE CHAO | NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Panetta's Wrong About a Cyber 'Pearl Harbor'

The Internet doesn't work that way.

BY JOHN ARQUILLA | NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Words Are Weapons of Mass Destruction

Why Hamas should watch its language.

BY DAVID KEYES | NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Prosperity Isn't Just a Matter of Wealth

Man does not live by GDP alone. An introduction to the Legatum Institute's latest Prosperity Index.

BY PETER PASSELL | NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Ready Player One

Did the Pentagon just take over America's cybersecurity?

BY JAMES ANDREW LEWIS | OCTOBER 12, 2012

Private Security

How companies meddle in cyberwar.

BY TIM MAURER | OCTOBER 11, 2012

Big Data: A Short History

How we arrived at a term to describe the potential and peril of today's data deluge.

BY URI FRIEDMAN | NOVEMBER 2012

The Innocence of YouTube

It's time for Internet giants to explain when censorship is and isn't OK.

BY SUSAN BENESCH, REBECCA MACKINNON | OCTOBER 5, 2012

An Idealist on Death Row

Why the desperate fate of a little-known Sudanese human rights activists poses some fundamental questions about what it means to be human.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | OCTOBER 3, 2012

The Great Persian Firewall

Should we care that Iran just turned off Google?

BY ART KELLER | SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Requested Page Could Not Be Found

Seven countries where Internet freedom is under threat.

BY SANJA KELLY, SARAH COOK | SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Keep on Tweetin'

The embassy debacle shouldn't end 21st-century #diplomacy.

BY JAMES K. GLASSMAN | SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Code Red

How Capitol Hill politicking has undermined cybersecurity--again. 

BY JAMES ANDREW LEWIS | AUGUST 1, 2012

The Sudanese Stand Up

The best way to help the protesters in Sudan? Cover the story.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JUNE 27, 2012

The FP Twitterati 100

A who’s who of the foreign-policy Twitterverse in 2012.

JUNE 18, 2012

Head of State

Hillary Clinton, the blind dissident, and the art of diplomacy in the Twitter era.

BY SUSAN B. GLASSER | JULY/AUGUST 2012

Cool War

Could the age of cyberwarfare lead us to a brighter future?

BY JOHN ARQUILLA | JUNE 15, 2012

Ruling Facebookistan

The world's largest social networking site has a population nearly as large as China or India's. And the natives are getting restless.

BY REBECCA MACKINNON | JUNE 14, 2012