{"id":731,"date":"2014-01-23T18:04:05","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T18:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/?p=731"},"modified":"2014-01-23T18:04:05","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T18:04:05","slug":"intensifying-cyber-threats-jonathan-zittrain-22-january-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/2014\/01\/23\/intensifying-cyber-threats-jonathan-zittrain-22-january-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Intensifying Cyber Threats | Jonathan Zittrain, 22 January 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>An oped by <strong>Jonathan Zittrain<\/strong>. <\/em>Not too long ago, the phrase &#8220;electronic army&#8221; would have conjured up visions of a 1980s cyber-dystopian film &#8212; the kind featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger and a lot of fog machines. But today the idea of an electronic army has been adopted outside the realm of entertainment, as a group called the Syrian Electronic Army, which supports Bashar al-Assad&#8217;s regime, has successfully managed to temporarily cripple the online operations of companies like Twitter and The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/jonathan-zittrain\/intensifying-cyber-threats_b_4645548.html?utm_source=News%40Law+subscribers&amp;utm_campaign=7a18d8efde-News_Law_Thursday_January_23_20141_23_2014&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_856982f9c6-7a18d8efde-259577617\">Intensifying Cyber Threats | Jonathan Zittrain<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An oped by Jonathan Zittrain. Not too long ago, the phrase &#8220;electronic army&#8221; would have conjured up visions of a 1980s cyber-dystopian film &#8212; the kind featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger and a lot of fog machines. But today the idea of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/2014\/01\/23\/intensifying-cyber-threats-jonathan-zittrain-22-january-2014\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1681,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1681"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":732,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions\/732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}