1. Cyber Café Mini Presentation

2. Virtual to Material & Back Again

3. A start at looking at virtual contention
and how it relates to “real” contention
• Focus: Politically Motivated DDOS attacks
• Education and repression are a dangerous mix
and make such attacks more likely
– And we are controlling for wealth and internet
penetration
• Another interesting finding
• No relation to violent contention in a country
BUT such attacks are related to nonviolent
contention

4. Collecting data and looking at
connections and discourse
• Social scientists have made headway on predicting
terrorist behavior – if we have data
– Need info on terrorists’ characteristics and their networks
• Comp sci can contribute through text processing to
structured data and modeling
– Event coding
– Entity discover
– Organizational & network data

5. Appendix

6. What spaces need to be addressed?
Space of Activity Example
Strategic communication – • Beheading video (1)
public diplomacy • Bin Laden video (2)
• alneda.com, (3)
Tactical communication - • Google maps (4)
Cyberplanning (Thomas) • steganography (5)
• 18/11/ 2001 Nimda virus (6)
Cyber to cyber (large efforts • DDoS attack on Estonia (7)
going on with this- not main • the Oak Ridge National Laboratory attack
focus) 12/7/07 (8)
• Slammer Worm infiltration of Ohio Nuclear
plant - Attack industrial control systems (9)
Cyber to corporeal • Bring down air traffic radars (10)
• Destruction of equipment needed to connect
Corporeal to cyber to cyber and media world (11)