Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Congratulations to Andreas Tsamados who presented a compelling thesis! 010
Reposted by Andrew DwyerEliot Lord @house-of-lord.bsky.social · 25/06/2026We are launching The Context Summer edition in the next couple of weeks and we’ve got some big names in it. Vince Cable, @profejzrobinson.bsky.social, @andrewdwyer.bsky.social, Adel Darwish, Nishiha Jasper David, Pelle Neroth Taylor and many more. We are also looking for ads for the next issue! 122
Reposted by Andrew DwyerThomas Dekeyser @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social · 06/05/2026London-based folks: I am running a night on the contemporary relevance of archives of tech resistance to celebrate the launch of my book, Techno-Negative 🔨🔥 it will take place at Mayday Rooms on 13th May. Free, but please register. Books for sale too! maydayrooms.org/event/an-eve... 064
Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Some comments from me from an in-depth interview on Iranian cyber operations in Aperio Intelligence 🔽 www.portal.aperio-intelligence.com/fcd/article?...portal.aperio-intelligence.com 000
Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 29/04/2026📣 Call for UK participants - Whole of Society for Cyber Power workshop next Thursday! Are you a cyber policy practitioner - from government, industry, or elsewhere - who would be happy to come to a workshop in central London next Thursday (7th May)? Lunch and refreshments provided! 111
Reposted by Andrew DwyerInformation Security Group | Royal Holloway, UoL @isg-rhul.bsky.social · 12/03/2026📢 @royalholloway.bsky.social has been recognised as an Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Education (ACE-CSE) - Gold Award by the @ncsc.gov.uk and DSIT! www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and...royalholloway.ac.ukRoyal Holloway recognised with prestigious Gold Award in Cyber Security EducationRoyal Holloway has been recognised as an Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Education (ACE-CSE) – Gold Award by the UK Government. 022
Reposted by Andrew DwyerNorman @noaasm.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Trump's administration has ordered US diplomats to lobby against attempts to regulate US tech companies' handling of foreigners' data, saying in an internal diplomatic cable seen by Reuters www.reuters.com/sustainabili...reuters.comExclusive: US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiativesPresident Donald Trump's administration has ordered U.S. diplomats to lobby against attempts to regulate U.S. tech companies' handling of foreigners' data, saying in an internal diplomatic cable seen ... 044
Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 06/01/2026This is one of the better pieces I've seen on Venezuela and the UK approach by Patrick Wintour in the Guardian. In an era of rapidly emerging Trumpian realism, the UK is very much hampered in its pursuit of a liberal rules-based order... www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...theguardian.comWhy won’t Yvette Cooper criticise Trump over Venezuela? Look no further than UkraineThe foreign secretary faces a tight balancing act between keeping the US involved in peace talks, and trying to maintain international order 000
Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 06/01/2026Marking in an age of generative AI is absolutely painstaking - not because I am *against* AI, but having to delve into a whole host of references to check engagement is a much more demanding task (and perhaps always should have been). A 2000 word essay takes me at least 30 minutes to mark now. 020
Reposted by Andrew DwyerAlex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 08/10/2025New article from the Algorithmic Societies group at Durham where theorize prompting as "a mutation in the exercise of political power, beyond the direct command and even the more indirect ‘action at a distance’ characteristic of liberal governmentality...." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comPolitics of the prompt: Government in the age of generative AIThis paper addresses the politics of the technique of prompting in machine learning, at a time when bureaucratic and democratic government is undergoing transformation. Drawing on the case of the U... 153
Reposted by Andrew DwyerInformation Security Group | Royal Holloway, UoL @isg-rhul.bsky.social · 06/10/2025On 12 November, we are delighted to welcome Siân John MBE to deliver the second Fred Piper Annual Information Security Lecture at @royalholloway.bsky.social. Registration is free but mandatory - follow the link below for more information and to sign-up. www.royalholloway.ac.uk/about-us/eve...royalholloway.ac.ukAI in practice: skills, security, and shifting realitiesThis lecture explores the real-world implications of AI—beyond the hype and into the grounded realities of how it's reshaping our work, education, and societal expectations. 001
Reposted by Andrew DwyerInformation Security Group | Royal Holloway, UoL @isg-rhul.bsky.social · 22/08/2025📰 Check out this new report funded by the UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology on 'Securing Converged Technologies: Insights from Subject Matter Experts' Written by our own Dr @andrewdwyer.bsky.social and @mikaelabrough.bsky.social (CDT in Cyber Security) www.gov.uk/government/p...gov.ukSecuring converged technologies: insights from subject matter experts 013
Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 12/08/2025📢 New blog piece from me - Prefiguring Responsibility: The Pall Mall Process and Cyber Intrusion Capabilities - for the Research Institute for Sociotechnical Cyber Security! riscs.org.uk/2025/08/12/p...riscs.org.ukPrefiguring Responsibility: The Pall Mall Process and Cyber Intrusion Capabilities – Andrew Dwyer – Research Institute for Sociotechnical Cyber Security 000
Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 28/07/2025Funding bid submitted exploring some of the political economy of cyber power... fingers crossed as it's a potentially fantastic collaboration :D 010
Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Is anyone I know planning on attending the #AAG next year in San Fran? I'm mulling over what to do as I've been out of the geography conference circuit for a few years... 000
Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 03/06/2025I'm delighted that with colleagues - Co-Is Lizzie Coles-Kemp and Danilo Francati - that we have been successful in the first SALIENT funding call with our project, "Fake in the Community" 042
Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 22/05/2025A quote from me in @thetimes.com yesterday I was perhaps being somewhat provocative, but can a self-proclaimed technical authority (the UK NCSC) be also driving market and political change? www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog... 010
Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 09/05/2025In the increasing discussion of 'agentic' AI, I thought about this back a few years ago with relation to computation, war and conflict... www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...taylorfrancis.comThe unknowable conflict | 3 | Tracing AI, recognition, and the death oIn our contemporary moment, computation has unsettled international conflict through an inherent, and growing, incommensurability expedited by ‘artificial 000
Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 01/05/2025After a very eventful and reflective #CHI2025, just found out that we have been successful in more funding to continue this work! What a great sweetener to end on! 010
Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 27/04/2025In Japan to present our paper, Friend or Foe? Navigating and Re-configuring "Snipers’ Alley" at #CHI2025. This is my first time here, so if you wish to discuss 'critical' approaches to (cyber) security and privacy, please get in touch! dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro... 010
Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 22/04/2025Planning a conference as a lecturer is so different to a PhD... Oh the wilds of the PhD I miss you! 000
Reposted by Andrew DwyerLouise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Putting this back here because yes the deep border is everywhere, it certainly doesn’t respect “compartmentalized data” (are people really surprised that DOGE links data sources arbitrarily & violently?) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comThe deep borderDeep neural network algorithms are becoming intimately involved in the politics of the border, and are themselves bordering devices in that they class… 0205
Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Sometimes academia can be a wild one - just been on @nickferrarilbc.bsky.social's LBC show to discuss the extraordinary leak of information on Signal on the Yemen strikes. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...theatlantic.comThe Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War PlansU.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling. 000
Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Our #CHI2025 paper is now on arXiv! For those of you who wish to consider HCI and security from community-based perspective, where all actors in the 'digital by default' economy can be 'snipers' and ways of moving beyond threat models, this is for you! arxiv.org/abs/2503.16992 000
Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 22/03/2025The Heathrow incident shows how important information - over cyber - security is for operational resilience. It’s about the whole ‘stack.’ I also think we need to reevaluate the UK flavour of ‘risk based’ governance that is consistently used to do the minimum investment possible. on.ft.com/4bMPRAlon.ft.comHeathrow’s shutdown fuels questions about UK’s infrastructure resilienceWithin hours of a fire at a power substation, one of the world’s busiest airports was closed to all flights 021
Reposted by Andrew DwyerInformation Security Group | Royal Holloway, UoL @isg-rhul.bsky.social · 20/03/2025📢 Our own @andrewdwyer.bsky.social gave evidence to the UK Parliament's Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy (JCNSS) on offensive cyber - demonstrating the ISG's key work in providing expertise to policy in information and cyber security www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and...royalholloway.ac.ukISG Academic provides expertise on ‘offensive cyber’ to UK Parliamentary committeeDr Andrew Dwyer, Lecturer in Information Security, gave expert evidence to the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy during a session on ‘offensive cyber’. 021
Reposted by Andrew Dwyergillian rose @profgillian.bsky.social · 14/03/2025we are recruiting a physical geography full professor - do contact @geodiverse.bsky.social if you need a bit of background to Oxford-University-ness (the role of the colleges here is, err, unique...). #geosky @oxfordgeography.bsky.social my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...my.corehr.com 01311
Reposted by Andrew DwyerCiaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 03/03/2025So pleased to announce the launch event for the new @blavatnikschool.bsky.social at Oxford Tech and Cyber Policy Programme. The brilliant Richard Horne, head of the National Cyber Security Centre, will be speaking next Weds at 5pm. Sign up in person or online! 1/2 bit.ly/3D66x98bit.lyLaunch of the Oxford Programme for Cyber and Technology PolicyJoin us for the launch of the Oxford Programme for Cyber and Technology Policy (OxCTP). Professor Ciaran Martin and Richard Horne, CEO of the NCSC, will discuss the evolving cyber threat landscape and... 1177
Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 03/03/2025A good piece here on Salt and Volt Typhoon - and the limited utility of offensive cyber operations to deter. warontherocks.com/2025/02/a-ta...warontherocks.comA Tale of Two Typhoons: Properly Diagnosing Chinese Cyber Threats - War on the RocksHow should the United States address the multiple cyber “typhoons” emanating from China? Over the past year, Chinese cyber threat actors have gained 021
Reposted by Andrew DwyerAlexander Martin @alexmartin.bsky.social · 02/03/2025Curious reporting in the NYT’s follow to @martinmatishak.bsky.social’s scoop about Hegseth’s stand-down order on Russian cyber operation planning (www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/u...) stating that US CYBERCOM’s covert operations against Russia are being run out of the United Kingdom. 5216
Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Important piece from @alexmartin.bsky.social about the impact of the suspected Technical Capability Notice (TCN) from the UK against Apple's Advanced Data Protection system on the UK's responsible cyber power. I'm quoted about the potential for this position... 1/2 therecord.media/apple-uk-bac...therecord.mediaUK silence over Apple ‘back door’ is unsustainable and unjustifiable, say expertsBritain's government risks its domestic and international standing as it refuses to either confirm or deny any details about a legal notice targeting Apple’s cryptographic protections for iCloud accou... 121
Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Students are using AI - from note taking, to explaining concepts, and writing and development. As much as AI will be useful what is learning without tension? That is, learning emerges during points of caesura - learning is not efficient information transfer www.theguardian.com/education/20...theguardian.comUK universities warned to ‘stress-test’ assessments as 92% of students use AISurvey of 1,000 students shows ‘explosive increase’ in use of generative AI in particular over past 12 months 020
Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Punchy FT editorial here about the UK’s move to limit E2E encryption - Encryption ‘back doors’ are a bad idea on.ft.com/436y1G9on.ft.comEncryption ‘back doors’ are a bad ideaUK pressure on Apple for data access could leave the majority less safe 000
Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 25/02/2025This is noble idea from Jason Healey and colleagues; but questions of trust and legitimacy still are problematic, especially in the dominance of the ‘west’ and how the US simply is not seen as a reliable partner. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/a-mu...lawfaremedia.orgA Multistakeholder Model of Cyber PeaceThe international community needs a new model for maintaining peace and security in cyberspace. 000
Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 25/02/2025I do hope that there are strong provisions to stop harassment of people through dropping warrants - I imagine some people could exploit the dropping of AirTags to use police presence as a harassment technique. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...theguardian.com 000
Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Interesting piece in @wonkhe.bsky.social on PGR supervision - and about CPD. This is something that I've found is often overlooked, and it's nice to see it recognised. wonkhe.com/blogs/resear...wonkhe.comResearch supervision in the context of REF - time for a step change?Karen Clegg, Liz Quinlan, and Nicola Palmer take a look at REF and the implications for research supervision 000
Reposted by Andrew DwyerSam Kinsley @samkinsley.uk · 24/02/2025First proper article in five years, due to life stuff. If you’re interested in work, automation, the future & imagination this may be of interest #geosky doi.org/10.1177/0263...doi.orgSage Journals: Discover world-class researchSubscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher. 22310
Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 22/02/2025If there was ever an issue with extraterritorial jurisdiction, it is this case with Apple over its advanced data protection. I think it’s perfectly fair that Apple should remove its services to avoid an order 1/2 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukApple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row - BBC NewsCustomers' photos and documents stored online will no longer be protected by end-to-end encryption. 110
Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Looks like a major Community Fibre outage, a London ISP… 010
Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 05/02/2025📣 Friend or Foe? Navigating and Re-configuring "Snipers' Alley" A paper with Lizzie Coles-Kemp, Clara Crivellaro, & Claude Heath exploring how 'snipers' - including governments, service providers, and family/friends - are made in a constricted 1/2 #chi25 pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/en/publicati... 101
Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Great piece in the FT about senses of justice in the FT by @sarahoconnorft.ft.com, relating to work we’re doing in NE England on automated security, fraud, and senses of justice in what we term ‘snipers’ alley’ soon to be published. on.ft.com/410gtdgon.ft.comThe problem of fairness in an automated worldSimply adding a human review process to an algorithmic decision doesn’t make tricky trade-offs disappear 110
Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 03/02/2025Somewhat a 'nothing to see here' issue regarding the story of Starmer's email being compromised by Russia. This is not to be unexpected, and shows how politicians need additional protections and support. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...thetimes.comRussian hackers suspected of accessing Keir Starmer’s personal emailStaff were instructed not to email the Labour leader under any circumstances, a new book reveals 200
Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 25/01/2025I'm currently editing a paper, and I just remembered a dream where an ex colleague said - "Ah, I knew it was your paper as there were too many split infinitives"... I think that shows my state of mind. 000
Reposted by Andrew DwyerPaul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Beck's uninsurability thesis meets Piketty's inequality thesis www.nytimes.com/interactive/...nytimes.comMore Americans, Risking Ruin, Drop Their Home InsuranceAs climate threats worsen, they are skipping payments and losing protection. 0134
Reposted by Andrew DwyerJamie MacColl @jamiemaccoll.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Our new commentary in @bindinghook.bsky.social explores why ransomware has (in our view) largely been ignored by scholars of cyber conflict and offensive cyber operations. 1/ 11513
Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 21/01/2025How do y’all cope with the incapacitating administrative loads in academia? #academicsky 120
Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Today has been one of those ‘Alice’ days where I can’t be on the computer for too long before triggering another episode… means exam prep has gone completely out of the window… www.bbc.com/future/artic...bbc.comThe mystery of Alice in Wonderland syndromeA surprising number of people experience symptoms of this curious condition, which is named after Lewis Carroll's heroine, who changed size after eating and drinking. 010