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Christopher Bronk

Short circuiting a revolution in Egypt

January 28, 2011admin

This morning we awoke to images of massive protests in Cairo calling for the ouster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, a man who has served as the country’s president since October 1981. Other significant mobilizations of popular dissent have occurred… Continue Reading →

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Julian Assange: A Revolutionary Icon?

January 21, 2011admin

Sometimes pictures really do add up to something more than words can convey. This is one of those times. On the way back to the Rice University campus from Times Barber Shop, I was arrested by this piece of street… Continue Reading →

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Happy 10th birthday, Wikipedia: Thanks for not selling out

January 14, 2011admin

Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, will celebrate 10 years of operation this weekend. As a Wikipedia enthusiast, it’s hard for me to remember how I looked up basic information before it. Would I really want to look… Continue Reading →

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Why bloggers broke the news on China’s new fighter jet

January 7, 2011admin

Only a couple of weeks after the first photographs surfaced on the Internet, the People’s Republic of China’s newest combat aircraft, the Chengdu J-20, is making headlines in the U.S. press. Conversation on the J-20 in the press (see here)… Continue Reading →

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Walls, Politics and Music

January 4, 2011admin

Nearly every morning, I stroll past a chunk of the Berlin Wall on my way in the offices of the Baker Institute. The collapse of the wall was a defining moment of my political coming of age (along with the… Continue Reading →

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More on WikiLeaks

December 1, 2010admin

In an article published this week in Foreign Policy, Baker Institute founding director Ambassador Edward P. Djerejian and information technology policy fellow Christopher Bronk, Ph.D., discuss the potentially disastrous effects of WikiLeaks’ publication of more than 250,000 U.S. embassy cables.… Continue Reading →

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A cyber smart bomb: The Stuxnet threat

November 8, 2010admin

Information Technology Policy fellow Chris Bronk thinks the United States needs to do a better job of protecting its computer systems from malicious software, which he says is becoming increasingly sophisticated – and dangerous. In a recent commentary in the… Continue Reading →

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