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Binding Hook @bindinghook.bsky.social · 1d

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Binding Hook @bindinghook.bsky.social · 1d

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Binding Hook @bindinghook.bsky.social · 1d

Last month’s #JaguarLandRovercyberattack may cost £3.5B in revenue, but the bigger issue is the impact on 230,000 workers at JLR and in the supply chain facing layoffs, work reductions, and lost wages. @jasonnurse.bsky.social, Tom Johansmeyer & Gareth Mott: bindinghook.com/jaguar-land-...

Jaguar Land Rover cyberattack shows that governments must provide post-incident support

Cyber incidents impacting key national industries highlight the need for better approaches to protect the individuals who suffer most

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Binding Hook @bindinghook.bsky.social · 6d

About 100,000 North Koreans work abroad in fields other than IT, earning the regime $500M a year. Most wages go back to Pyongyang, despite sanctions. Labour exports are central to its strategy. Read more from Kritika Roy: bindinghook.com/how-north-ko...

How North Korea revamped old tactics for the IT age

A largely unseen army of IT operatives quietly infiltrates global networks and secures foreign currency as part of a system Pyongyang has honed over decades through the strategic export of its labour ...

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Binding Hook @bindinghook.bsky.social · 7d

In his latest for Binding Hook, Rogier Creemers explores #MadeinChina2025, which has encouraged innovation and led to major successes in fields from #solarpanels to #semiconductors. Read more: bindinghook.com/the-curious-...

The curious case of Chinese innovation

Political red lines limit chatbots, but not circuit boards. Support for industry matters more – when the state builds, the market often follows, sometimes at breakneck speed

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Binding Hook @bindinghook.bsky.social · 8d

To hear the authors discuss this piece live, join the @virtualroutes.bsky.social Colloquium online on October 23 from 16:00 CET: virtual-routes.org/event/export...

Export controls and spyware: Enhancing oversight, transparency and restraint - Virtual Routes Colloquium

The second session of the Virtual Routes Colloquium Fall/Winter series hosts Mark Bromley and Giovanna Maletta from SIPRI. Mark and Giovanna will present their research on "Export controls and spyware...

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Binding Hook @bindinghook.bsky.social · 8d

Since 2012, states have used #exportcontrols to monitor and restrict #cybersurveillance tools, aiming to reduce risks to security and human rights. Recent multilateral initiatives have kept the momentum going: bindinghook.com/using-export...

Using export controls to tackle the proliferation and misuse of spyware and cyber-surveillance tools

While the US and the Wassenaar Arrangement have historically led the way on spyware export controls, it may be the EU’s and the Pall Mall Process’s turn

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Cyber Statecraft Initiative @cyberstatecraft.bsky.social · 11d

And for some OSS funding and security history, check out this article from CSI nonresident senior fellow John Speed Meyers and his coauthor, Jacqueline Kazil, in @bindinghook.bsky.social: bindinghook.com/articles-bin...

How to ‘harden’ open-source software - Binding Hook

Much of today's critical infrastructure and military systems rely on open-source software

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Binding Hook @bindinghook.bsky.social · 13d

Finally, John Lee digs into the successes of Chinese chips – despite a late start and US export controls, an adaptive and supply-chain focused industrial policy has allowed them to become competitive. bindinghook.com/what-chinas-...

What China’s chip strategy gets right

The global chip race has a new contender – one that is rewriting the rules with ecosystem thinking and adaptability

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Binding Hook @bindinghook.bsky.social · 13d

Ausma Bernot writes that, despite China’s serious democratic and privacy limitations, there are lessons for Europe in its top-down, state-centred approach to police technology. bindinghook.com/chinas-polic...

China’s policing modernisation could offer lessons for Europe

Europe’s reliance on US tech giants for law enforcement tools collides with its sovereignty agenda, inviting a closer look at how China’s state-centric model balances innovation and control.

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Binding Hook @bindinghook.bsky.social · 13d

Next, Vincent Brussee explores how China’s strict-but-narrow regulatory approach has allowed AI to thrive within the bounds set by the state, and the implications of that for a Europe focused on deregulation. bindinghook.com/chinas-gener...

China’s generative AI boom isn’t just technological – it’s regulatory

Behind China’s rapid rise in generative AI is a bold regulatory experiment. Beijing is regulating AI with strict but narrowly targeted rules, that spur innovation while maintaining tight oversight

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Binding Hook @bindinghook.bsky.social · 13d

Rogier Creemers looks at ‘Made in China 2025’, arguing that, despite Chinese policy flaws, it’s clear that old saws about Confucianism or communism inhibiting innovation should be recycled. bindinghook.com/the-curious-...

The curious case of Chinese innovation

Political red lines limit chatbots, but not circuit boards. Support for industry matters more – when the state builds, the market often follows, sometimes at breakneck speed

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Binding Hook @bindinghook.bsky.social · 13d

That and other recent technological developments prompted Binding Hook’s Katerina Fytatzi to ask, ‘What could Europe learn from China’s tech successes?’ In our new series, four authors answer: bindinghook.com/what-europe-...

What Europe can learn from China's technological revolution

From AI to semiconductors, Beijing’s top-down innovation drive has delivered world-class results. As the US doubles down on tech protectionism, and China surges ahead, Europe must decide which lessons...

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Binding Hook @bindinghook.bsky.social · 13d

The January release of DeepSeek AI was a shock – How could China create such an effective technology at a fraction of what it cost to create similar LLMs in the US?

Binding Hook @bindinghook.bsky.social · 14d

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Binding Hook @bindinghook.bsky.social · 20d

In September’s #Hooked!, Binding Hook editor @katharinegk.bsky.social compared some of the cyber aspects of China’s military parade and the SCO summit to European approaches to the military and defense. bindinghook.com/hooked-7-i-l...

Hooked! #7: I love a parade (but what does it mean?) - Binding Hook

Between the military parade and the SCO summit, China started its September highlighting technological prowess and ambitions

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Virtual Routes @virtualroutes.bsky.social · 21d

In the first installment of the #AIoverLunch interview series, Apolline Rolland sat down with NATO's CIO, Manfred Boudreaux-Dehmer, to discuss NATO’s use of AI for security and resilience.

👉 Read the full interview: virtual-routes.org/ai-over-lunc...

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Siena Anstis @sanstis.bsky.social · 22d

A few (early) thoughts on digital transnational repression and extraterritorial human rights obligations over at @bindinghook.bsky.social. Thanks for the opportunity to share my research (again!).

Digital transnational repression and the limits of international human rights law in a ‘post-territorial’ world

Traditional models of jurisdiction fail dissidents in an ever more connected world

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Binding Hook @bindinghook.bsky.social · 22d

International human rights law has not moved as quickly to address the cross-border use of digital technologies as repressive states have adopted them, leaving dissidents and exiles at risk. bindinghook.com/digital-tran...

Digital transnational repression and the limits of international human rights law in a ‘post-territorial’ world

Traditional models of jurisdiction fail dissidents in an ever more connected world

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Binding Hook @bindinghook.bsky.social · 26d

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Binding Hook @bindinghook.bsky.social · 27d

From DDoS attacks on the New York Times to hacked satellites showing Russian propaganda instead of BabyTV, private companies are on the front lines of #hybridconflict, whether they want to be or not. Pieter Wolters in Binding Hook: bindinghook.com/hybrid-confl...

Hybrid conflicts, private companies, and European cybersecurity obligations

Though hybrid conflicts may ultimately be a matter for national governments, private companies still must defend themselves.

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Binding Hook @bindinghook.bsky.social · Sep 4

Second, @alexandrapaulus.bsky.social of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) examines the ways #cyberdiplomats could most effectively utilise this flawed mechanism: bindinghook.com/how-cyber-di...

How cyber diplomats can tweak the new UN cybersecurity forum for the better

States committed to international law and the participation of non-state actors should act now to make sure the new global mechanism can provide room for productive exchange

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Binding Hook @bindinghook.bsky.social · Sep 4

First, Elaine Korzak of the UC Berkeley Risk and Security Lab looks at the history and outcomes of the #cyberOEWG and the unresolved controversies that will continue to impact the global mechanism: bindinghook.com/new-un-perma...

New UN permanent mechanism on cybersecurity is saddled with old controversies

Unresolved differences over cyber norms, international law, and stakeholder participation limit the global mechanism’s potential

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Binding Hook @bindinghook.bsky.social · Sep 4

The UN #cyberOEWG has concluded its work and created a new #globalmechanism for cyber issues. Binding Hook has two new pieces on the OEWG process and how diplomats can use the new mechanism effectively 👇

Binding Hook @bindinghook.bsky.social · Sep 2

Just as hybrid aggressors may be private actors, their targets are also often in the private sector. How do EU #cybersecurity obligations impact those companies? Pieter Wolters answers in Binding Hook. bindinghook.com/hybrid-confl...

Hybrid conflicts, private companies, and European cybersecurity obligations

Though hybrid conflicts may ultimately be a matter for national governments, private companies still must defend themselves.

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Binding Hook @bindinghook.bsky.social · Aug 29

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