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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 7h

New article from the Algorithmic Societies group at Durham where theorize prompting as "a mutation in the exercise of political power, beyond the direct command and even the more indirect ‘action at a distance’ characteristic of liberal governmentality...." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Politics of the prompt: Government in the age of generative AI

This paper addresses the politics of the technique of prompting in machine learning, at a time when bureaucratic and democratic government is undergoing transformation. Drawing on the case of the U...

www.tandfonline.com

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Information Security Group | Royal Holloway, UoL @isg-rhul.bsky.social · 2d

On 12 November, we are delighted to welcome Siân John MBE to deliver the second Fred Piper Annual Information Security Lecture at @royalholloway.bsky.social.

Registration is free but mandatory - follow the link below for more information and to sign-up.

www.royalholloway.ac.uk/about-us/eve...

AI in practice: skills, security, and shifting realities

This lecture explores the real-world implications of AI—beyond the hype and into the grounded realities of how it's reshaping our work, education, and societal expectations.

www.royalholloway.ac.uk

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Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 26d

Phew! #CHI2026 paper submitted just in time 🎉💤

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Information Security Group | Royal Holloway, UoL @isg-rhul.bsky.social · Aug 22

📰 Check out this new report funded by the UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology on 'Securing Converged Technologies: Insights from Subject Matter Experts'

Written by our own Dr @andrewdwyer.bsky.social and @mikaelabrough.bsky.social (CDT in Cyber Security)

www.gov.uk/government/p...

Securing converged technologies: insights from subject matter experts

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Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · Aug 12

📢 New blog piece from me - Prefiguring Responsibility: The Pall Mall Process and Cyber Intrusion Capabilities - for the Research Institute for Sociotechnical Cyber Security!

riscs.org.uk/2025/08/12/p...

Prefiguring Responsibility: The Pall Mall Process and Cyber Intrusion Capabilities – Andrew Dwyer – Research Institute for Sociotechnical Cyber Security

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Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · Jul 28

Funding bid submitted exploring some of the political economy of cyber power... fingers crossed as it's a potentially fantastic collaboration :D

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Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · Jul 3

Is anyone I know planning on attending the #AAG next year in San Fran? I'm mulling over what to do as I've been out of the geography conference circuit for a few years...

Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · Jun 3

I'm delighted that with colleagues - Co-Is Lizzie Coles-Kemp and Danilo Francati - that we have been successful in the first SALIENT funding call with our project, "Fake in the Community"

SALIENT-Hub @salient-hub.bsky.social · Jun 3

Fake in the Community - @royalholloway.bsky.social
📱 ‘Cheap fakes’ are eroding trust in local digital spaces. This community-led project co-designs tools to counter misinformation and support digital resilience.
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Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · May 22

A quote from me in @thetimes.com yesterday

I was perhaps being somewhat provocative, but can a self-proclaimed technical authority (the UK NCSC) be also driving market and political change?

www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog...

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Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · May 9

In the increasing discussion of 'agentic' AI, I thought about this back a few years ago with relation to computation, war and conflict...

www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...

The unknowable conflict | 3 | Tracing AI, recognition, and the death o

In our contemporary moment, computation has unsettled international conflict through an inherent, and growing, incommensurability expedited by ‘artificial

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Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · May 1

After a very eventful and reflective #CHI2025, just found out that we have been successful in more funding to continue this work!

What a great sweetener to end on!

Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · Apr 27

In Japan to present our paper, Friend or Foe? Navigating and Re-configuring "Snipers’ Alley" at #CHI2025.

This is my first time here, so if you wish to discuss 'critical' approaches to (cyber) security and privacy, please get in touch!

dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...

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Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · May 1

It's more that AWS is a critical infrastructure, rather that critical infrastructure necessarily sitting on it (in that the interconnectedness of AWS and other clouds have expanded what is now considered critical too)

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Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · Apr 27

In Japan to present our paper, Friend or Foe? Navigating and Re-configuring "Snipers’ Alley" at #CHI2025.

This is my first time here, so if you wish to discuss 'critical' approaches to (cyber) security and privacy, please get in touch!

dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...

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Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · Apr 22

Planning a conference as a lecturer is so different to a PhD...

Oh the wilds of the PhD I miss you!

Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · Apr 17

A little door refresh with some recent work!

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Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · Apr 10

Oh wow - congratulations Lou! That's simply amazing stuff

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · Mar 27

Putting this back here because yes the deep border is everywhere, it certainly doesn’t respect “compartmentalized data” (are people really surprised that DOGE links data sources arbitrarily & violently?)

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The deep border

Deep neural network algorithms are becoming intimately involved in the politics of the border, and are themselves bordering devices in that they class…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · Mar 25

Sometimes academia can be a wild one - just been on @nickferrarilbc.bsky.social's LBC show to discuss the extraordinary leak of information on Signal on the Yemen strikes.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans

U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

www.theatlantic.com

Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · Mar 24

Our #CHI2025 paper is now on arXiv!

For those of you who wish to consider HCI and security from community-based perspective, where all actors in the 'digital by default' economy can be 'snipers' and ways of moving beyond threat models, this is for you!

arxiv.org/abs/2503.16992

Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · Mar 22

The Heathrow incident shows how important information - over cyber - security is for operational resilience. It’s about the whole ‘stack.’ I also think we need to reevaluate the UK flavour of ‘risk based’ governance that is consistently used to do the minimum investment possible.

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Heathrow’s shutdown fuels questions about UK’s infrastructure resilience

Within hours of a fire at a power substation, one of the world’s busiest airports was closed to all flights

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Information Security Group | Royal Holloway, UoL @isg-rhul.bsky.social · Mar 20

📢 Our own @andrewdwyer.bsky.social gave evidence to the UK Parliament's Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy (JCNSS) on offensive cyber - demonstrating the ISG's key work in providing expertise to policy in information and cyber security

www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and...

ISG Academic provides expertise on ‘offensive cyber’ to UK Parliamentary committee

Dr Andrew Dwyer, Lecturer in Information Security, gave expert evidence to the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy during a session on ‘offensive cyber’.

www.royalholloway.ac.uk

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gillian rose @profgillian.bsky.social · Mar 14

we are recruiting a physical geography full professor - do contact @geodiverse.bsky.social if you need a bit of background to Oxford-University-ness (the role of the colleges here is, err, unique...). #geosky @oxfordgeography.bsky.social
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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · Mar 11

Evergreen

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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · Mar 3

So pleased to announce the launch event for the new @blavatnikschool.bsky.social at Oxford Tech and Cyber Policy Programme.

The brilliant Richard Horne, head of the National Cyber Security Centre, will be speaking next Weds at 5pm.

Sign up in person or online! 1/2

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Launch of the Oxford Programme for Cyber and Technology Policy

Join us for the launch of the Oxford Programme for Cyber and Technology Policy (OxCTP). Professor Ciaran Martin and Richard Horne, CEO of the NCSC, will discuss the evolving cyber threat landscape and...

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Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · Mar 3

A good piece here on Salt and Volt Typhoon - and the limited utility of offensive cyber operations to deter.

warontherocks.com/2025/02/a-ta...

A Tale of Two Typhoons: Properly Diagnosing Chinese Cyber Threats - War on the Rocks

How should the United States address the multiple cyber “typhoons” emanating from China? Over the past year, Chinese cyber threat actors have gained

warontherocks.com

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