Repression, Education, and Politically Motivated Cyberattacks
Repression, Education, and Politically Motivated Cyberattacks
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镇压、教育和出于政治动机的网络攻击
DOI：
10.1093/jogss/ogw006
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发表时间：
2016
影响因子：
1.6
通讯作者：
C. Bronk
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作者：
Victor Asal;Jacob A. Mauslein;Amanda M. Murdie;Joseph K. Young;Ken Cousins;C. Bronk
是什么因素驱动了出于政治动机的网络攻击？我们的研究重点是一种特殊的网络攻击：出于政治动机的分布式拒绝服务攻击(DDoS)。我们认为，拒绝服务攻击是更大类别的政治争论的一种特殊形式，更类似于非暴力而不是暴力激进主义。我们提供了一个国家层面的解释，帮助确定为什么一些民族国家更有可能遭受此类攻击，而大多数其他国家则不是。当我们控制财富和互联网普及率时，解释一个国家更有可能遭受DDoS攻击的最强烈因素是镇压和受过高等教育的人口的危险组合。这些结果对这种形式的争论的学术研究，以及对努力应对这种新形式的激进主义的政策制定者都具有重要意义。
What factors drive politically motivated cyberattacks? Our research focuses on one particular kind of cyberattack: politically motivated, distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS). We argue that denial-of-service attacks are a particular form of a larger category of political contention that is more similar to nonviolent than violent activism. We offer a country-level explanation that helps establish why some nation-states are more likely to suffer such attacks while most others are not. When we control for wealth and Internet penetration, the strongest factor explaining why a country is more likely to suffer DDoS attacks is the dangerous combination of repression and a highly educated population. The results have important implications both for the scholarly study of this form of contention, as well as for policymakers grappling with this new form of activism.