Stanford’s Lin says new Aspen disinformation commission will wrestle with ‘how to incentivize doing the right thing'
Stanford’s Lin says new Aspen disinformation commission will wrestle with ‘how to incentivize doing the right thing'
Stanford University’s Herb Lin, a member of the Aspen Institute’s new Commission on Information Disorder, says “cyber-enabled information warfare” poses an existential threat that in many ways defies current government and private-sector structures organized to protect digital systems from cyber attack.
Stanford University’s Herb Lin, a member of the Aspen Institute’s new Commission on Information Disorder, says “cyber-enabled information warfare” poses an existential threat that in many ways defies current government and private-sector structures organized to protect digital systems from cyber attack.
“Cybersecurity is usually thought of in technical terms -- viruses, firewalls, etc. -- and the primary focus is on protecting the computer,” Lin told Inside Cybersecurity. “The problem of defending against information disorder is more about protecting the human mind than about computers. A computer can be patched but there’s no downloadable patch for the human mind.”
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