Is It a Strategic Blindness on the Russians?

5min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

I can't think of a good reason why if they particularly wanted to destroy, you know, the civilian internet infrastructure inside Ukraine that they would be unable to. That said, that's a much blunter instrument than simply taking out the pipes. And so I'm curious whether you read this as sort of strategic blindness on the Russian side as to how badly they are being outperformed in external communications. The information space is one of the areas in which the Ukrainians have really just crushed the Russians.

Matt Tait is a cybersecurity expert who has worked both in the private sector and for the British government at GCHQ, the UK's intelligence, security, and cyber agency. He's also a Lawfare contributor. Like a lot of us, Tait has spent the last several months thinking about Ukraine, and Lawfare editor-in-chief Benjamin Wittes had cybersecurity questions for him. They talked about why the Ukrainian internet is still functioning and why the Russians have been so ineffective in the cyber arena. They also talked about whether U.S. support for Ukraine is threatened with Republicans in control of the House and what the Biden administration is going to do about Section 702, which is scheduled to expire at the end of next year.

Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lawfare.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.