Covert Communication: The Intelligibility and Credibility of Signaling in Secret

Carson, Austin; Yarhi-Milo, Keren

doi:10.1080/09636412.2017.1243921

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“…Political scientists have tended to treat secrecy, and the consequences of ‘unsecrecy’, in a manner that reflects the objectivist approach described above: information is either secret or it is not, and the exposure of information intended to be kept secret is an inevitable failure from which accountability would naturally emerge. However, with scholars now recognising the nuances of secrecy and different means and levels of exposure, this binary is breaking down (Carson, 2016, 2018; Carson and Yarhi-Milo, 2017; Cormac and Aldrich, 2018). Austin Carson elicits two ways in which secrecy has been depicted.…”

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“…See Hood, 2002, 2016); second, how governing elites use message management to evade culpability in a foreign policy crisis (Cormac and Daddow, 2018), and third, the politics at work in narrative contestations over foreign policy issues (see Oppermann and Spencer, 2018). A key novelty and wider significance of our article is that we develop our theoretical framework by plugging the policy evaluation literature more tightly into research from the field of intelligence studies into secrecy in the exercise of state power (Carson, 2016, 2018; Carson and Yarhi-Milo, 2017; Cormac and Aldrich, 2018). We use this to inform growing interest in ‘hidden agendas’ and their effects on politics and policy-making (McConnell, 2018: 1747–1749).…”

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From secrecy to accountability: The politics of exposure in the Belgrano affair

Eason

Daddow

Cormac

2020

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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This article adds to the intersubjective research into policy failures by analysing the furore that erupted in UK politics over the sinking in May 1982 of the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano during the Falklands War. The article examines the ways in which the Thatcher government initially tried to conceal what had really happened and how, over time, the revelations piled up and the sinking came to be narrated as a serious case of government wrongdoing. To interpret the challenges interested parties in politics and the media faced in holding the government to account, the article develops a new analytical framework for making sense of the ways in which secrecy and acknowledgement interplay in the construction of failure narratives. It argues that elite control over information subtly shapes both the willingness and ability of interested parties to contest official government positions, resulting in a series of theoretical and policy facing conclusions.

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From secrecy to accountability: The politics of exposure in the Belgrano affair

Eason

Daddow

Cormac

2020

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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“…The presence of redundancy [36] in some of the representations of digital media (used as carrier or cover) is the targeted areas of data hiding in steganography. It attracted the attention of many researchers and developers, who decided to generate newer techniques of availing and sustaining covert communication [37]. During the communication stage, any unauthenticated people may only notice the transmission of a seemingly unimportant image.…”

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6. Big data security issues with challenges and solutions

Koley¹

2019

Big Data Security

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With the advent of a range of data-driven avenues and explosion of data, research in the field of big data has become an important thoroughfare. Big data produces exceptional amounts of data points, which give greater insights that determine sensational research, better business decisions, and greater value for customers. To accomplish these endings, establishments need to be able to handle the data while including measures for using sensitive private information efficiently and quickly, and thus the implementation of security issue creates a vigorous role. End-point devices create the main factors for observance of the big data. Processing, storage, and other necessary responsibilities have to be performed with the help of input data, which is generated by the end-points. Therefore, an association should make sure to use an authentic and valid end-point security. Due to large amounts of data generation, it is quite impossible to maintain regular checks by most of the establishments. Therefore, periodic observation and performing security checks can be utmost promising in real time. On the other hand, cloud-based storage has enabled data mining and collection. However, this big data and cloud storage incorporation have introduced concerns for data secrecy and security threats. This volume intends to deliberate some of the latest research findings regarding the security issues and mechanisms for big data. The volume comprises seven wellversed chapters on the subject. The introductory chapter provides a brief and concise overview of the subject matter with reference to the characteristics of big data, the inherent security concerns, and mechanisms for ensuring data integrity. Chapter 2 deals with the motivation for this research that came from lack of practical applications of block chain technology, its history, and the principle of how it functions within the digital identity and importance of EDU certificate transparency and challenges in their sharing. In the theoretical part of the chapter, a comparison of the "classical" identity and digital identity is set out, which is described through examples of personal identity cards and e-citizen systems. Then, following the introduction into block chain technology and describing the method of achieving consensus and transaction logging, the principle of smart contracts is described, which provide the ability to enter code or even complete applications and put them into block chains, enabling automation of a multitude of processes. The chapter also explains common platforms through examples that are described as business models that use block chain as a platform for developing their processes based on digital identity. Chapter 3 describes the anomaly detection procedure in cloud database metric. Each and every big data source or big database needs a security metric monitoring. The monitoring software collects various metrics with the help of custom codes, plugging, and so on. The chapter describes the approach of modifying the normal metric thresholding to anomaly det...

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“…This represents an expansion of Goffman's 1959 "frontstage" and "backstage" framework. For a discussion of secret, or "backstage," signals seeCarson 2016 andCarson andYarhi-Milo 2017. 18. As long as the signal is highly visible to at least one public, domestic or foreign, we consider it to be frontstage.19.…”

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The Logic of “Offstage” Signaling: Domestic Politics, Regime Type, and Major Power-Protégé Relations

McManus¹,

Yarhi-Milo

2017

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This paper explores the question of how major powers signal support for their protégés. We develop a theory that explains why major powers show support for some protégés using highly visible “frontstage” signals of support, while supporting other protégés through less visible, but nonetheless costly, “offstage” signals. From an international strategic perspective, it is puzzling that major powers do not always send the most visible signal possible. We argue that this can be explained by considering the domestic environments in which the leaders of major powers and protégés operate. Focusing particularly on the United States as we develop our theory, we argue that the US will prefer to send offstage signals of support for more autocratic protégés for several reasons. First, sending frontstage support signals for autocracies would expose US leaders to charges of hypocrisy. Second, frontstage signals of support for autocracies face an impediment to credibility because of the public backlash in the United States that overt support for dictators could generate. Third, many autocratic protégés would be reluctant to accept a frontstage signal of support from the US because it could undermine their regime stability. We test our theory in a data set that records various support signals sent by the United States for other countries between 1950 and 2008, finding strong support for our expectations. We also find evidence of the causal mechanisms posited by our theory in a case study of relations between the US and the Shah's Iran.

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Covert Communication: The Intelligibility and Credibility of Signaling in Secret

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From secrecy to accountability: The politics of exposure in the Belgrano affair

From secrecy to accountability: The politics of exposure in the Belgrano affair

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