by Tim Mauter
ISBN: 9781316422724
Explores the secretive relationships between states and hackers. As cyberspace has emerged as the new frontier for geopolitics, states have become entrepreneurial in their sponsorship, deployment, and exploitation of hackers as proxies to project power. The post-Soviet space and Ukraine feature prominently in the analysis.
Kenneth R. Rosen, "‘Kill Your Commanding Officer’: On the Front Lines of Putin’s Digital War With Ukraine," Politico, 15 February 2022.
Pavel Polityuk and Steve Holland, "Cyberattack Hits Ukraine as U.S. Warns Russia Could be Prepping for War," Reuters, 14 January 2022.
Josephine Wolff, "Why Russia Hasn't Launched Major Cyber Attacks Since the Invasion of Ukraine," Time, 2 March 2022.
Elahe Izadi and Sarah Ellison, "Russia’s Independent Media, Long Under Siege, Teeters Under New Putin Crackdown," Washington Post, 04 March 2022.
Anders Åslund, "Why Vladimir Putin Is Losing the Information War to Ukraine," Atlantic Council, 06 March 2022.
Claire Woodcock, "Ukrainian Websites Are Going Dark. Archivists Are Trying to Save Them," Vice, 25 February 2022.
Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO)
A group of cultural heritage professionals – librarians, archivists, researchers, programmers – working together to identify and archive at-risk sites, digital content, and data in Ukrainian cultural heritage institutions while the country is under attack.
Library of Congress: archiving websites from Ukraine and the Russian-annexed areas.
Ivy Plus SEEES affinity group: adding endangered sites from the region (including Ukraine) to an IPLC digital collection called Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Union (on Internet Archive).
UC Berkley: documenting Ukraine Crisis 2022 on Archive-IT; it is a continuation of their Crimean Crisis Web Archive. Contact is Liladhar Pendse.
Internet Archive Global Events: discussion is under way for a web archiving project on the war in Ukraine.
American Folklore Society: backups of research and collection data for folklorists, ethnologists, and heritage institutions in Ukraine. We welcome colleagues in need to complete this form.