May 2, 2024 | Featured, Politics & Society, Referee
By Marco de Jong, Auckland University of Technology and Emma Shortis, RMIT University Photo by U.S. Secretary of Defense, CC by 2.0 Deed Details released by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet under the Official Information Act reveal New Zealand...
Sep 6, 2021 | Politics & Society
By Alexander Gillespie New Zealand needs to go beyond fast-tracking counter-terrorism laws to reduce the risk of future attacks. New Zealand’s second terrorist attack in two years highlights weaknesses in existing counter-terrorism laws in preventing violent...
Aug 27, 2020 | Politics & Society
By Logan Carmichael Cyberattacks are taking place with increasing frequency, and with increasing capability to do widespread damage. On Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, the New Zealand Stock Exchange (NZX) halted trading as a result of Distributed Denial of Service...
Jul 2, 2019 | Politics & Society
Is the age of privacy over? What is at stake when we lose our privacy? How does a lack of privacy affect security, democracy, and society? Maria Armoudian speaks with Helen Nissenbaum, Michael Patrick Lynch, Bruce Schneier, and Joshua Fairfield. Helen Nissenbaum is a...
Oct 16, 2018 | Politics & Society, Referee
By Hannah Brown Could New Zealand suffer an act of cyberwar? Hannah Brown explores. As multilateral institutions like the United Nations and NATO move to define cyberwar and develop legal frameworks to regulate it, the word cyberwar has still never been uttered in New...
Jan 17, 2018 | Politics & Society
The inner workings of intelligence gathering agencies have long been a black box to the public. How many are there? How do they cooperate and function? How have they changed? Glenn Carle served twenty-three years in the Central Intelligence Agency, and he sat down...