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Talking about cyberwarfare today was weird. It was hard for me to formulate an opinion on how to respond to Russia\u2019s aggressions because I don\u2019t understand the culture or the regime; I don\u2019t know how they would react to anything. In this case, clandestine efforts (like sending spies??) may be necessary to gain more insight on how their culture works and what vulnerabilities they truly have. I have to admit that I\u2019ve never really thought about cyberwarfare much, and I hadn\u2019t considered how the United States should respond to Russia\u2019s interference in the election at all. After our discussion today, I\u2019ve realized how difficult it is to think of an effective response, especially with a government that doesn\u2019t really seem to or want to care about Russia\u2019s interference. I\u2019m hesitant to take an aggressive stance, but it seems like Russia will not stop their aggression until they face some significant push-back. I think that using informational power (for example, disseminating the photographs and bios of dead soldiers) can be effective and it is also not a blatant act of war; in this sense, its effects can be even more powerful because they may not be predicted by the public. Cyberwarfare is very scary to me because I feel like I know nothing about it and I really don\u2019t know what to do about it because I\u2019m unsure of the information I\u2019m getting about the issues. While I know that I should not be content with my ignorance, it seems to me that cyberwarfare is an issue that is best left to \u201cprofessionals\u201d. I think that something needs to be done about Russia and that the US needs to step up their security game, but I have no idea what things can be done and I don\u2019t know if anyone does. I hope that people who actually know what\u2019s going on will be heard and able to make smart decisions for the country. Our guest speaker today knows a lot more than I do and I would say that I trust his ideas and suggestions. <\/span><\/p>\n

We also touched on labelling of social media content today. It\u2019s interesting that this idea we talked about a few weeks ago is actually a new bill being passed around right now. I see how there are several complications that may arise in passing the bill, but I hope that it goes through because it is a step in the right direction and the complications can be dealt with. It really is on the social media platforms to ensure a certain amount of security for civilians, and they have a responsibility in preventing the public from being misinformed–since social media nowadays has so much power and influence over people, they also need to take responsibility. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Talking about cyberwarfare today was weird. It was hard for me to formulate an opinion on how to respond to Russia\u2019s aggressions because I don\u2019t understand the culture or the regime; I don\u2019t know how they would react to anything. In this case, clandestine efforts (like sending spies??) may be necessary to gain more insight […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8866,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cindizzle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cindizzle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cindizzle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cindizzle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8866"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cindizzle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cindizzle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cindizzle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cindizzle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cindizzle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cindizzle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}