Stefan Schiffner

Identifying Unintended Harms of Cybersecurity Countermeasures

2019

Well-meaning cybersecurity risk owners will deploy countermeasures (technologies or procedures) to manage risks to their services or systems. In some cases, those countermeasures will produce unintended consequences, which must then be addressed. Unintended consequences can …

Whistleblower protection in the digital age -- why 'anonymous' is not enough. From technology to a wider view of governance

2021 · arXiv (Cornell University)

When technology enters applications and processes with a long tradition of controversial societal debate, multi-faceted new ethical and legal questions arise. This paper focusses on the process of whistleblowing, an activity with large impacts on …