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Andrew Dwyer

@andrewdwyer.bsky.social
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Lecturer @isg-rhul.bsky.social | Geopolitics and Cyber Security | Writing a book on computation and geopolitics | Lead @ Offensive Cyber Working Group

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Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Congratulations to Andreas Tsamados who presented a compelling thesis!
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Eliot Lord @house-of-lord.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
We 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!
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Thomas Dekeyser @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
London-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...
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Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Some comments from me from an in-depth interview on Iranian cyber operations in Aperio Intelligence 🔽 www.portal.aperio-intelligence.com/fcd/article?...
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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!
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Information 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...
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Royal Holloway recognised with prestigious Gold Award in Cyber Security Education
Royal Holloway has been recognised as an Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Education (ACE-CSE) – Gold Award by the UK Government.
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Norman @noaasm.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Trump'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...
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Exclusive: US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives
President 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 ...
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Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
This 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...
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Why won’t Yvette Cooper criticise Trump over Venezuela? Look no further than Ukraine
The foreign secretary faces a tight balancing act between keeping the US involved in peace talks, and trying to maintain international order
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Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Marking 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.
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Alex Campolo @alexcampolo.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
New 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....
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Politics of the prompt: Government in the age of generative AI
This 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...
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Information Security Group | Royal Holloway, UoL @isg-rhul.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
On 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...
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AI in practice: skills, security, and shifting realities
This 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.
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Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Phew! #CHI2026 paper submitted just in time 🎉💤
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Information 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...
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Securing converged technologies: insights from subject matter experts
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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...
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Prefiguring Responsibility: The Pall Mall Process and Cyber Intrusion Capabilities – Andrew Dwyer – Research Institute for Sociotechnical Cyber Security
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Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Funding bid submitted exploring some of the political economy of cyber power... fingers crossed as it's a potentially fantastic collaboration :D
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Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Is 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...
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Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
I'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"
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Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
A 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...
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Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
In 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-...
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The unknowable conflict | 3 | Tracing AI, recognition, and the death o
In our contemporary moment, computation has unsettled international conflict through an inherent, and growing, incommensurability expedited by ‘artificial
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Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
After 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!
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Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
In 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...
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Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Planning a conference as a lecturer is so different to a PhD... Oh the wilds of the PhD I miss you!
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Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
A little door refresh with some recent work!
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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Putting 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...
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The deep border
Deep neural network algorithms are becoming intimately involved in the politics of the border, and are themselves bordering devices in that they class…
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Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Sometimes 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...
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The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.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.
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Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Our #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
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Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
The 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/4bMPRAl
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Heathrow’s shutdown fuels questions about UK’s infrastructure resilience
Within hours of a fire at a power substation, one of the world’s busiest airports was closed to all flights
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Information 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...
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ISG Academic provides expertise on ‘offensive cyber’ to UK Parliamentary committee
Dr Andrew Dwyer, Lecturer in Information Security, gave expert evidence to the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy during a session on ‘offensive cyber’.
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gillian rose @profgillian.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
we 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...
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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Evergreen
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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
So 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/3D66x98
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Launch of the Oxford Programme for Cyber and Technology Policy
Join 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...
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Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
A good piece here on Salt and Volt Typhoon - and the limited utility of offensive cyber operations to deter. warontherocks.com/2025/02/a-ta...
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A Tale of Two Typhoons: Properly Diagnosing Chinese Cyber Threats - War on the Rocks
How should the United States address the multiple cyber “typhoons” emanating from China? Over the past year, Chinese cyber threat actors have gained
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Alexander Martin @alexmartin.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Curious 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.
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Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Important 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...
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UK silence over Apple ‘back door’ is unsustainable and unjustifiable, say experts
Britain'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...
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Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Students 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...
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UK universities warned to ‘stress-test’ assessments as 92% of students use AI
Survey of 1,000 students shows ‘explosive increase’ in use of generative AI in particular over past 12 months
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Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Punchy FT editorial here about the UK’s move to limit E2E encryption - Encryption ‘back doors’ are a bad idea on.ft.com/436y1G9
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Encryption ‘back doors’ are a bad idea
UK pressure on Apple for data access could leave the majority less safe
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Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
This 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...
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A Multistakeholder Model of Cyber Peace
The international community needs a new model for maintaining peace and security in cyberspace.
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Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
I 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...
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Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Interesting 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...
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Research 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
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Sam Kinsley @samkinsley.uk · 24/02/2025
First 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...
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Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
If 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...
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Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row - BBC News
Customers' photos and documents stored online will no longer be protected by end-to-end encryption.
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Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Looks like a major Community Fibre outage, a London ISP…
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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...
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Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Great 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/410gtdg
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The problem of fairness in an automated world
Simply adding a human review process to an algorithmic decision doesn’t make tricky trade-offs disappear
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Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Somewhat 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/...
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Russian hackers suspected of accessing Keir Starmer’s personal email
Staff were instructed not to email the Labour leader under any circumstances, a new book reveals
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Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
I'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.
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Paul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Beck's uninsurability thesis meets Piketty's inequality thesis www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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More Americans, Risking Ruin, Drop Their Home Insurance
As climate threats worsen, they are skipping payments and losing protection.
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Jamie MacColl @jamiemaccoll.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Our 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/
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Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
How do y’all cope with the incapacitating administrative loads in academia? #academicsky
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Andrew Dwyer @andrewdwyer.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Today 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...
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The mystery of Alice in Wonderland syndrome
A 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.
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