Hey! Myself and Francesca Musiani have an article published in Media, War and Conflict, "Can #Encryption save lives? Secure #messaging and its #infrastructures as loci of convergence between #Cyber #warfare and conventional warfare: The case of #ukraine".
The paper that analyzes how secure messaging tools and infrastructures that makes their deployment possible are now an integral part of a war and resistance infrastructure where the borders between cyber warfare and conventional warfare are becoming more and more blurred. However, we also underline the limits of a tool-centred approach and demonstrate how, in the case of the war in Ukraine, physical threats to civilians and infrastructure damage mean that encrypted messaging is one among several innovative technical and social practices of holistic self-defence deployed by Ukrainians.
The article as published is here https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17506352241297942
but an open access pre-print can be accessed on Hal: https://hal.science/hal-04834148