Researcher on Internet infrastructure, state-sponsored hacking, sanctions, human rights, and authoritarianism; 'Blonde guy, talks about Iran a lot.'(ملا لغتی)
Now published through @CarnegieEndow – "Iran’s Cyber Threat: Espionage, Sabotage, and Revenge" – the decade long history of Iranian cyber operations against foreign and domestic targets. By me and @ksadjadpour. https://t.co/NQvnAl4Fpm
@freedaaron Hope so! Reading Bell and Inglehart nowadays, haunts of the class structure of the New Left and post-industrialism – a middle class rebellion then over Vietnam, now economic downward mobility.
@hmajd His original attempt at organizing defections from the security forces was a form on a Google Doc. My pet theory is that the 50,000 number comes from the IRGC trolling (or muddying the waters) through en masse false registrations.
@alexstamos@growing_daniel I wonder how much 3D printers is an instructive model. Rapacious copying of foreign competitors and a domestic open source (by differing definitions) ecosystem such that Chinese manufacturers first competed on price, and then based on product quality (Bambu).
@k_tajbakhsh@vali_nasr If that's the benchmark of 'war' then you're inviting ample equivocation over the U.S. and Iran/Islam – support for the Shah, chemical weapons in Iran/Iraq, Iran Air 655, Israel, Lebanese civil war, 'axis of evil,' so on so on. Critical difference between contestation and war.
@xoxoshirazi I engaged in good will and a similar concerns about monarchist violence and bullying. I regret that was misperceived, will delete my tweets, and not bother you. I wish you well.