Andrew Dwyer

Funding bid submitted exploring some of the political economy of cyber power... fingers crossed as it's a potentially fantastic collaboration :D

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...

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"

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?

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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

In the increasing discussion of 'agentic' AI, I thought about this back a few years ago with relation to computation, war and conflict...

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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!

It's more that AWS is a critical infrastructure, rather that critical infrastructure necessarily sitting on it (in that the interconnectedness of AWS and other clouds have expanded what is now considered critical too)

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!

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Planning a conference as a lecturer is so different to a PhD...

Oh the wilds of the PhD I miss you!

A little door refresh with some recent work!

Oh wow - congratulations Lou! That's simply amazing stuff

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…

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?)

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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.

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.

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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!

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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

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.

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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’.

📢 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

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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
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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...

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

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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

A good piece here on Salt and Volt Typhoon - and the limited utility of offensive cyber operations to deter.

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There’s likely a lot of deconfliction and coordination ongoing…

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.

Offensive cyber - Committees - UK Parliament

...to be understood as 'responsibility-washing' due to a lack of transparency in advance of my appearance in front of the UK Parliament's Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy (JCNSS) on Monday on 'Offensive Cyber' 2/2

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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...

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

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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

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

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Encryption ‘back doors’ are a bad idea UK pressure on Apple for data access could leave the majority less safe

Punchy FT editorial here about the UK’s move to limit E2E encryption - Encryption ‘back doors’ are a bad idea

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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.

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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.

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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

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.

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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

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