Technologie

Cyber Interference in the Federal Election? Part 1
- 12 avril 2019
“We judge it very likely that Canadian voters will encounter some form of foreign cyber interference related to the 2019 federal election.” So says the Communications Security Establishment (CSE), Canada’s equivalent to America’s NSA and Britain’s GCHQ, in a …
Par Paul Robinson
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Cyber Interference in the Federal Election? Part 2
- 12 avril 2019
Part 1 of this blog dealt with the fairly generic alarms raised by the CSE regarding election tampering by foreign cyber threats. As far as the specific threat to Canada is concerned, CSE says the following:

« Since the 2015 …
Par Paul Robinson
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Thinking with Maps: Geospatial Reasoning in War
- 31 octobre 2018
by Antoine Bousquet

Visual representations of space have long served a role in military affairs, assisting the strategic planning of campaigns, the design and placement of defensive fortifications, and navigation in unfamiliar territory. Yet it is only in the past …
Par CIPS
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Is Facebook Just a “Tool”?
- 14 avril 2018
by Nolen Gertz

This past week, Facebook CEO, chairman, and founder Mark Zuckerberg testified before members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives to answer to the growing scandal surrounding Facebook’s role in helping Cambridge Analytica (and, by …
Par CIPS
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Why Deleting Facebook Isn’t Enough
- 4 avril 2018
By Taylor Owen and Ben Scott

While being pessimistic about the depressing tableau of Silicon Valley malfeasance is easy, let us not forget that the internet has brought tremendous value to our society. Therefore, the answer is not to lock …
Par CIPS
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Before We Sell Aecon to China, Canada’s National Security Must Come First
- 8 février 2018
“The Chinese are coming” may sound like a melodramatic note from a bygone Cold War, but it has been updated for a new reality of Chinese global economic expansion. Developing and developed economies alike have felt its impact. Now, one …
Par Wesley Wark
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The Nuclear Renaissance is Dead… Did Canada Miss the Memo?
- 11 novembre 2017
Since the early 2000s, there has been much talk about the “nuclear renaissance” — the expected revival and expansion of the civilian nuclear energy industry. The idea has largely been kept afloat by industry efforts to promote nuclear energy as …
Par Ryan Katz-Rosene
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NAFTA is the Wrong Venue to Govern Digital Trade
- 14 septembre 2017
By Susan Ariel Aaronson and Patrick Leblond

Diplomats from Canada, Mexico, and the United States are thinking about the website where you met your soulmate, and the cloud service where you store your photos. In an increasingly digital economy, policy …
Par Patrick Leblond
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