Cybergéopolitique: De l'utilité des cybermenaces

Abstract

Cybersecurity narratives in The United States are influenced by geopolitical representations of vulnerability and threat. Some of these representations challenge the innovation behaviors that are so prevalent in online environments, and antagonize with the entrepreneurial ethos of the country. These securitization moves have been explicitly rejected by an important sector of the Information Technology (IT) community that sees in the hacker an archetype of creative behaviour and not an enemy of the state. This paper explores alternatives to de-securitize cyberspace in order to create a more democratic cybersecurity policy that rebalances fears and facts to empower the citizen-hacker to protect online environments outside the politics of fear.