CNN's Matt Welch asks why the Internet is still on in Ukraine. The Russians seem more than capable of blowing up civilian infrastructure, he says. And yet when I email or WhatsApp with my friends in Kyiv, everything seems okay,. Some of them don't have lights on but their Internet works - and so I just... Why is this happening? It takes a lot of civilian infrastructure to run an Internet.
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.
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