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Loving The Cyber Bomb? The Dangers Of Threat Inflation In Cybersecurity Policy, Jerry Brito, Tate Watkins
Loving The Cyber Bomb? The Dangers Of Threat Inflation In Cybersecurity Policy, Jerry Brito, Tate Watkins
Jerry Brito
Over the past two years there has been a steady drumbeat of alarmist rhetoric coming out of Washington about potential catastrophic cyber threats. For example, at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing last year, Chairman Carl Levin said that “cyberweapons and cyberattacks potentially can be devastating, approaching weapons of mass destruction in their effects.” Proposed responses include increased federal spending on cybersecurity and the regulation of private network security practices.
The rhetoric of “cyber doom” employed by proponents of increased federal intervention, however, lacks clear evidence of a serious threat that can be verified by the public. As a result, …
Transparency And Performance In Government, Jerry Brito
Transparency And Performance In Government, Jerry Brito
Jerry Brito
The legal literature on transparency is generally divided into two categories: the study of transparency as a solution to political corruption and scholarship looking at transparency in the context of corporate disclosure requirements. The former is concerned with preventing government malfeasance that can lead to serious societal problems, especially in the developing world. The latter focuses on the disclosure of corporate performance to fully inform markets. However, these two insights on transparency never meet. In this article, we hope to show that just as mandatory transparency can improve corporate performance, it may help improve government performance as well.
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Hack, Mash & Peer: Crowdsourcing Government Transparency, Jerry Brito
Hack, Mash & Peer: Crowdsourcing Government Transparency, Jerry Brito
Jerry Brito
Hack, Mash & Peer: Crowdsourcing Government Transparency
JERRY BRITO George Mason University - Mercatus Center - Regulatory Studies Program October 21, 2007
Abstract: In order to hold government accountable for its actions, citizens must know what those actions are. To that end, they must insist that government act openly and transparently to the greatest extent possible. In the Twenty- First Century, this entails making its data available online and easy to access. If government data is made available online in useful and flexible formats, citizens will be able to utilize modern Internet tools to shed light on government activities. Such …