Lex Cybernetica Podcast
by The Federmann Cyber Security Center – Cyber Law Program
Lex Cybernetica by The Federmann Cyber Security Center – Cyber Law Program Brings together experts to discuss issues from the Center’s core activities and research.
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Lex Cybernetica E20- Encryption Rights
The two active shooter terrorist attack in San Bernardino became into a high-tech case when the phone of one of the shooters was obtained by police, which couldn’t open it because of encryption. This turned into a legal battle between the state and Apple, the creator of the phone, who were asked…
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Lex Cybernetica E19-Online Hate Speech
Freedom of speech is almost a sacred thing in the US and revered in many democratic countries. But in recent years, there is talk of its abuse to propagate hate speech online, and the need to limit it as a result. What is hate speech (or dangerous speech), what’s unique about it online, what are...
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Lex Cybernetica E18- Accountabillity
Legal accountability means that an unlawful act does not go with impunity. When a state carries out a cyber operation against another state, it’s accountable under international law towards the international community. However, international law doesn’t always have teeth to hold the rogue actor...
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Lex Cybernetica E17-Human Decision Maker
Can we trust decisions made by algorithms? Those are utilized by managers to choose employees, judges to give verdicts, and much more. While algorithms are often considered unbiased, or at least less biased than humans, they are in truth as biased as the data-sets that they were trained on, and…
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Lex Cybernetica E15 - Cyber Insurance
While cyber threats have been around for decades, cyber insurance is still a fledgling, mainly American, $4-6 bn industry, that's estimated to grow to $20 bn by 2025. In Israel, only 13% of local companies have cyber insurance, according to a June 2019 survey of executives, decision makers and...
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Lex Cybernetica E14 – Vulnerability of Smart Medicine
Who would you prefer tell you when your loved one is going to die? Annalisia Wilharm had a telerobodoctor on wheels deliver the sad news of her grandfather Ernest Quintana’s terminality. Two days later he died of lung failure, at 79. “This secure video technology is a live conversation with a...
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Lex Cybernetica E13 – Smart and Autonomous Cars
On average, 3,287 people are killed every day in car accidents, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Elaine Herzberg was one of them, when, on the evening of March 18, 2018, as she was pushing her bicycle across the road outside the crosswalk in Tempe, Arizona, a car fatally hit her....
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Lex Cybernetica E12 – The Human Factor in Cyber Crime and Cyber Security Mitigation Clone this book page
Hacker Kevin Mitnick’s infamous social engineering escapades, where he’d call up companies and convince employees to surrender information he would later use to hack their systems, took advantage of people’s, rather than computer systems’, weaknesses. Cybersecurity is not a purely technical…
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Lex Cybernetica E11 – Ecosystem and Cyber Conflicts
A healthy innovation ecosystem is crucial for states to handle cybersecurity threats. Traditional methods and procedures simply will not do. “After a couple of years, if you're successful, you'll have a solution, for example the Iron Dome”, explains Dr. Amit Sheniak of the Federmann Cyber…
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Lex Cybernetica E10 – Artificial Intelligence
We hear a lot about AI and how it's going to change our lives - or even destroy them. How does the legal system deal with having AI integrated into our lives? Prof. Karen Eltis, a full Professor of Law (professeure titulaire) at the Faculty of Law of the University of Ottawa and research…
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Lex Cybernetica Interview E06 – Prof. Yuval Shany
State actors abuse the ability to cyberattack anonymously or through proxies, which allows them to evade the consequences and avoid retaliation. Before we determine what we should and should not do in reaction to a cyberattack, we need to make sure we correctly attribute it to its source....
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Lex Cybernetica E09 – Big Data and Information Security
Big data is used, among other things, in cybersecurity research. Take, for example, Dr. Amit Rechavi‘s research, tracking different hacking activities in order to supply policymakers with state attribution of malicious hackers. We often put our trust in data-based information and decisions, but...
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Lex Cybernetica E08 – Military Application of Human Enhancement Technologies
What is human enhancement? One way to define it is to compare it to therapeutic measures, explains Prof. Noam Lubell, a professor of international law at the University of Essex, research associate at the Hebrew University Federmann Cyber Law Program and Swiss chair of humanitarian law at the...
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Lex Cybernetica Interview E05 – Prof. David Maimon
Prof. David Maimon is the guest of this episode of Lex Cybernetica, Prof. Maimon is an Associate Professor in the department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Georgia State University. His research interests include cyber-enabled and cyber-dependent crimes and experimental research methods....
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Lex Cybernetica Interview E04 – Dr. Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler
The Israeli elections are imminent, and so are the threats to our democracy. The threat comes from hackers, who may try to harm the elections or divert the results, and from digital information manipulators, spreading fake news and propaganda. Election hacking is just one example of the...
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Lex Cybernetica Interview E03 – Prof. Michael Schapira
The Internet works, but we’d like it to work better. But fixing it is not as easy as it would have been when it was just a fledgeling academic network. For the last decade, Prof. Michael Schapira has been tackling one really essential part of it - securing Internet routing. Apparently, it’s...
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Lex Cybernetica Interview E02 – Prof. Noam Lubell
Cyberwar, What is it Cybergood For? While most cyberattacks are civil ones, the discussion about them has been militarized very early on. This is a problem, according to Prof. Noam Lubell, because the consequences are that most of the discussion of regulation of cyber security focuses on the…
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Lex Cybernetica E07 – Digital Rights and Activism
The departure of both WhatsApp founders from Facebook, who bought their chat app in 2014 for $19.3 billion, had to do with user rights, and in a broader view, digital rights. Jan Koum left earlier this year over disagreements with Facebook, which attempted to use users’ personal data and weaken…
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Lex Cybernetica E06 – Surveillance
“Unplug your Alexa devices right now, you're being hacked” was the warning Danielle (last name withheld) got when she picked up the phone recently. On the other side was one of her husband's employees, who’d received a recording of the couple’s conversation - “You sat there talking about hardwood...
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Lex Cybernetica Interview E01 – Prof. Aviv Zohar
Prof. Aviv Zohar is an associate prof. at The School of Engineering and Computer Science at The Hebrew University and The Chief Scientist at QED-it. His research interests include the economics of computational systems and protocols, cryptocurrencies, multi-agent systems, game theory, mechanism...
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Lex Cybernetica E05 – Fake News
Fake news is not a new concept, but it has been amplified by the internet and technology ecosphere. Fake news, such as the infamous Pizzagate story, can travel halfway around the World Wide Web in first-class seats while the truth is putting on its leather journalism shoes. The proliferation –…
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Lex Cybernetica E04 – Cyber Terrorism: Profiling and Human Rights
Late last year, a Palestinian man was arrested by Israeli police, who found out that he had posted an image of himself on Facebook next to a tractor, a work vehicle weaponized by Palestinian lone wolf attackers to lethal affect in recent years, and captioned it with an a threat of a slaughter,...
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Lex Cybernetica E03 – Privacy and the GDPR
Identified only by his surname, Ao was caught in Nanchang, Jiangxi province, 90 kilometers from his Zhangshu home. He was reportedly shocked when police got hold of him, because he was singled out by facial recognition technology at a Jacky Cheung concert, which he complacently attended with his...
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Lex Cybernetica E01 – The Tallinn Manual
No paying of bills online. No appealing of fines. No reporting of hazards. No court sessions. No applying for municipal positions. No free WiFi for tourists at the airport. This is what life was like for Atlantans for over a week after a ransomware cyberattack was waged on the city government of...
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