Age of Deception
At the heart of cybersecurity lies a paradox: Cooperation makes conflict possible. In Age of Deception , Jon R. Lindsay shows that widespread trust in cyberspace enables espionage and subversion. While such acts of secret statecraft have long been part of global politics, digital systems have dramat...
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| description | At the heart of cybersecurity lies a paradox: Cooperation makes conflict possible. In Age of Deception , Jon R. Lindsay shows that widespread trust in cyberspace enables espionage and subversion. While such acts of secret statecraft have long been part of global politics, digital systems have dramatically expanded their scope and scale. Yet success in secret statecraft hinges less on sophisticated technology than on political context. To make sense of this, Lindsay offers a general theory of intelligence performance—the analogue to military performance in battle—that explains why spies and hackers alike depend on clandestine organizations and vulnerable institutions. Through cases spanning codebreaking at Bletchley Park during WWII to the weaponization of pagers by Israel in 2024, he traces both continuity and change in secret statecraft. Along the way, he explains why popular assumptions about cyber warfare are profoundly misleading. Offense does not simply dominate defense, for example, because the same digital complexity that expands opportunities for deception also creates potential for self-deception and counterdeception. Provocative and persuasive, Age of Deception offers crucial insights into the future of secret statecraft in cyberspace and beyond. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1721612026-02-20T05:17:23Z Age of Deception Lindsay, Jon R. Intelligence and covert action Information security Cyberspace politics Disinformation and information operations Weaponized interdependence thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JW Warfare and defence thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theory thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPS International relations::JPSL Geopolitics At the heart of cybersecurity lies a paradox: Cooperation makes conflict possible. In Age of Deception , Jon R. Lindsay shows that widespread trust in cyberspace enables espionage and subversion. While such acts of secret statecraft have long been part of global politics, digital systems have dramatically expanded their scope and scale. Yet success in secret statecraft hinges less on sophisticated technology than on political context. To make sense of this, Lindsay offers a general theory of intelligence performance—the analogue to military performance in battle—that explains why spies and hackers alike depend on clandestine organizations and vulnerable institutions. Through cases spanning codebreaking at Bletchley Park during WWII to the weaponization of pagers by Israel in 2024, he traces both continuity and change in secret statecraft. Along the way, he explains why popular assumptions about cyber warfare are profoundly misleading. Offense does not simply dominate defense, for example, because the same digital complexity that expands opportunities for deception also creates potential for self-deception and counterdeception. Provocative and persuasive, Age of Deception offers crucial insights into the future of secret statecraft in cyberspace and beyond. 2026-02-20T05:17:22Z 2026-02-20T05:17:22Z 2026-02-19T08:14:24Z 2025 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/110019 9781501783234 9781501783227 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/172161 eng Cornell Studies in Security Affairs open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/110019/2/9781501783227.pdf Cornell University Press Cornell University Press 10.7298/tn7j-7158 10.7298/tn7j-7158 05937e7b-c222-4680-9580-c09c5ce7a11e 9781501783234 9781501783227 Cornell University Press 318 Ithaca open access |
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