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NEW WEBSITE AND REPORT: How Do We Define “Cyber Incident”, “Cyber Attack”, and Other Key Cyber Security Terms?
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, New America’s Tim Maurer and Robert Morgus released a new report outlining existing definitions of cybersecurity and inform...
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Compilation of Existing Cybersecurity and Information Security Related Definitions
The year 2013 saw a number of positive developments in regional and global cybersecurity discussions including the Initial Set of OSCE Confidence-B...
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Privacy Groups Including OTI Unite to Oppose Expansion of Government Hacking Authority
Today at 9 AM in Washington DC, the Open Technology Institute’s Policy Director Kevin Bankston will be testifying at a hearing before the Judicial ...
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Report: L.A., NYC Internet Services Among World's Slowest, Most Expensive
The report, titled Cost of Connectivity 2014, was compiled by New America's Open Technology Institute, a nonprofit think tank based in Washington, ...
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Did Robert O'Neill really kill bin Laden?
Former Navy SEAL Robert O'Neill said in an interview with The Washington Post that he was the one who fired the final shot to kill Osama bin Laden ...
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Christie's big day is nigh, but will his shower of RGA cash yield wins for GOP governors?
“He was this vey powerful candidate for the presidency,” said Julian Zelizer, a professor at Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affa...
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U.S. Internet Customers Pay More For Less
Customers in the U.S. continue to pay higher prices for slower Internet. So says a new report from New America’s Technology Institute (OTI).
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Internet service in Los Angeles is among the slowest, most expensive
A new report, The Cost of Connectivity 2014, from New America's Open Technology Institute, concludes that L.A. has among the slowest, most expensiv...
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Americans Pay Too Much for Slow Internet: Report
A new report suggests that Americans pay more for their Internet plans than residents of most other industrialized nations. Not only that, but Amer...
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Top 24 Cities With Fastest Internet Speeds in 2014
Inside the report, authored by Nick Russo and Robert Morgus with Sarah Morris and Danielle Kehl of Open Technology Institute at New America Foundat...
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The Fear Playbook
Making the world scary is good politics.
Yes, fear has a playbook. And while the political environment has changed importantly in the last decade, many of the same dynamics still apply, or...
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Will a GOP-dominated Congress be good for America?
*Will a GOP-dominated Congress be good for America? *
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Tie the 401(k) Limit to the Minimum Wage
The limit is actually a part of our wealth-inequality problem. The government goes to great lengths to help the very wealthy save more money while ...
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LA's Internet speed, cost ranked among worst major cities worldwide
The Open Technology Institute report did note some improvements in L.A., but they tended to be for the most expensive plans that fewer people use.
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House Dems brace for losses
“They want to keep this in the realm of a strong Democratic presidential candidate being able to have enough coattails to shift control in 2016,” J...
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Obamacare's Role in the Election
“The health care program isn’t explicitly part of the discussion, but it’s part of the campaigns and part of the way in which people are attacking ...
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All Things Political - Election Edition
The truth is that people hate negative ads, but they pay attention to them. Sometimes, candidates are publicly seen to go too far. Generally, howev...
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U.S. Trails in Internet Speeds, Has Higher Costs
*The new report, The Cost of Connectivity from the New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute, compares Internet access in America cities w...
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Why the negative ads we hate will endure
The truth is that people hate negative ads, but they pay attention to them. Sometimes, candidates are publicly seen to go too far. Generally, howev...
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Should Americans be forced to vote?
Yet, mandatory voting is ill-suited to America's current realities.
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China's New Laser Zaps Drones
A group of Chinese companies has developed a powerful anti-drone laser for use in urban areas. In the next few years, mini-UAVs like quadcopters an...
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New America’s Tim Maurer Speaks about Cybersecurity at the United Nations
On October 24, 2014, New America Research Fellow Tim Maurer addressed delegates at the United Nations (UN), delivering a speech on cybersecurity at...