Jon Lindsay
@jonrlindsay.bsky.social
Job: Assoc Prof @ GaTech School of Cyber & Privacy; Intl Affairs. Books: Age of Deception, Elements of Deterrence, IT & Mil Power. Interests: kids, mountains, philosophy, classics, democracy
🕵️ 𝗧𝘂𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 𝗗𝗮𝘆! 📖 Check out Josiah Dykstra's review of 𝘼𝙜𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝘿𝙚𝙘𝙚𝙥𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣: 𝘾𝙮𝙗𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙚𝙘𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙖𝙨 𝙎𝙚𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙩 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙘𝙧𝙖𝙛𝙩, by Jon Lindsay. ✍ tinyurl.com/mr3pv9n5 #CyberCanonReview #CybersecurityBooks #Cyberwarfare | @cornellupress.bsky.social | @josiahdykstra.bsky.social | @jonrlindsay.bsky.social
From March 2026 - Strategic Interdependence: Using Internet Outage Data to Study How Combatants Manage Collective Institutions During War - https://cup.org/4bVf7Vz - @nadiyakostyuk.bsky.social, @jonrlindsay.bsky.social, Kim, Anand, Bischof, Meng & @albertodainotti.bsky.social #OpenAccess
My name is Jon, and I'm a technologist. Maybe you are struggling with technology, too. If so, there is a community that can help. This twelve step program will help you to reclaim your humanity. dolos.substack.com/p/technologi...
Technologists Anonymous
A 12 Step Program for Reclaiming Our Humanity
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What does a fragment of Homer in a mummy have in common with a malicious attack on scientific software? dolos.substack.com/p/epistemic-...
Epistemic Sabotage and the Afterlife of Myth
The Fast16 Malware and a Homeric Fragment, or The Catalogue of Chips
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"You never defeated in cyber battle" - US cyber officer "That may be so, but it's irrelevant" - IRGC officer www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/o...
Opinion | Iran Is Losing the Cyberwar, Not the Real War
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The contrast between the heroism of the rescue in Iran and the vileness of Trump's "truth" is insane. Some thoughts from the son of a CSAR pilot... dolos.substack.com/p/csars-fine...
CSAR’s Finest Hour…in the Darkest Timeline
On Military Virtuosity and Flagitious Politics
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How Pete Hegseth made the means of defense an end in itself: dolos.substack.com/p/the-secret...
The Secretary of Defense of War
Pete Hegseth likes Warnography
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I'm excited to share a new paper showing that interdependence is not incombatible with war but rather a resource for combatants. Geolocated internet measurement data provides a proxy for interdependent institutions. Russian outages in Ukraine vary by maneuver, attrition, and punishment strategies.
British Journal of Political Science@bjpols.bsky.social · 4mo agoNEW - Strategic Interdependence: Using Internet Outage Data to Study How Combatants Manage Collective Institutions During War - https://cup.org/4bVf7Vz - @nadiyakostyuk.bsky.social, @jonrlindsay.bsky.social, Kim, Anand, Bischof, Meng & @albertodainotti.bsky.social #OpenAccess
The targeting cycle cannot win a misguided war, and some times it cannot even target. dolos.substack.com/p/oops-we-di...
Oops we did it again
The US military bombed a second school in Iran on the same day
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History may not repeat, but sometimes its rhymes are heartbreaking. dolos.substack.com/p/27-years-l...
27 Years Later, Still Bombing the Wrong Targets
Uncanny parallels between the elementary school in Iran and the Chinese embassy in Serbia
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I wrote a short piece on AI and war. Organizations matter. DOD has been using AI for decades. theconversation.com/us-military-...
US military leans into AI for attack on Iran, but the tech doesn’t lessen the need for human judgment in war
Anthropic’s Claude is helping the US military choose targets to strike in Iran, but responsibility for the accuracy, strategy and ethics of the decisions rests with humans.
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"A professional military will be better at winning wars of necessity, which is why it is important to have one if you can afford it. But the same professional forces can also be employed in stupid wars of choice." Really, really worth a read Thank you Jon!
Jon Lindsay@jonrlindsay.bsky.social · 5mo agoGood cyber, bad war A few thoughts on a distrubing pattern emerging across Venezuela and Iran: dolos.substack.com/p/the-perils...
Barriers to connectivity make cyber operations challenging. Not impossible. But less easy.
Doug Madory@eldomador.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe current Internet shutdown in Iran is in its 7th day. A small amount of traffic continues to trickle out of Iran for whitelisted individuals and services, for everyone else, almost no connectivity whatsoever. #IranWar #DigitalBlackoutlran
“Those who are to conduct a war cannot in the nature of things, be proper or safe judges, whether a war ought to be commenced,” Madison wrote,...the aggrandized power and honors the executive enjoys in wartime means “the temptation would be too great for any one man.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...
How the Decision to Start a War Became the President’s
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Good cyber, bad war A few thoughts on a distrubing pattern emerging across Venezuela and Iran: dolos.substack.com/p/the-perils...
The Perils of Military Professionalism
Operation Epic Fury follows a familiar pattern of military excellence enabling political malpractice
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"If you play Russian roulette enough times, eventually things turn out like the Deer Hunter." Brilliant analysis of Trump's profoundly deranged international bellicosity by my colleague Jon Lindsay dolos.substack.com/p/the-perils...
The Perils of Military Professionalism
Operation Epic Fury follows a familiar pattern of military excellence enabling political malpractice
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It was fantastic to join SSP to chat about my new book, which has a traceable lineage through my previous book, that began as an MIT dissertation. I am biased as an alum, obviously, but there's nothing like SSP, and the next generation of students is as fantastic as ever.
Security Studies Program MIT@ssp-mit.bsky.social · 5mo agoThank you, @jonrlindsay.bsky.social, for your book discussion “Age of Deception: Cybersecurity as Secret Statecraft” at this week’s Wednesday Seminar. ICYMI you can catch up on the conversation with the recorded stream. 🎥 https://youtube.com/live/yJRGUArzrKg?feature=share
Not sure if Age of Deception is the book for you? Check out Max van der Horst's review in Binding Hook! bindinghook.com/rethinking-c...
Rethinking cyber power beyond the language of war
Jon Lindsay’s Age of Deception: Cybersecurity as Secret Statecraft offers a sober alternative to the cyberwar rhetoric, showing how cyber operations function as intelligence contests shaped by secrecy...
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Jon Lindsay@jonrlindsay.bsky.social · 6mo agoFREE BEER!!! 🍺🍻 Ok, free book. It's called "Age of Deception" after all. Check out my new open access book on all things cyber and international relations! Cornell University Press: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501... Kindle and Audible: www.amazon.com/Age-Deceptio...
Moltbook is what happens when AI feeds on the spoor of humanity and starts cannibalizing its own excrement. dolos.substack.com/p/benthic-ca...
Benthic cannibals in cyberspace
The latest AI stew over OpenClaw or Moltbook
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Ever wonder whether there are any cyber lessons to be learned from the one and only mention of writing in Homeric epic? Wonder no further! dolos.substack.com/p/dangerous-...
“Dangerous and deadly symbols” in cyberspace
Bellerophon and the cyber/intelligence contest
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FREE BEER!!! 🍺🍻 Ok, free book. It's called "Age of Deception" after all. Check out my new open access book on all things cyber and international relations! Cornell University Press: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501... Kindle and Audible: www.amazon.com/Age-Deceptio...
Age of Deception by Jon R. Lindsay | eBook | Cornell University Press
At the heart of cybersecurity lies a paradox: Cooperation makes conflict possible. In Age of Deception, Jon R. Lindsay shows that widespread trust in cyberspace enables espionage and subversion. While...
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The @cornellupress.bsky.social has published Age of Deception: Cybersecurity as Secret Statecraft by @jonrlindsay.bsky.social on Amazon Kindle. Congratulations! www.amazon.com.au/Age-Deceptio...
Age of Deception: Cybersecurity as Secret Statecraft (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)
Age of Deception: Cybersecurity as Secret Statecraft (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs) eBook : Lindsay, Jon R.: Amazon.com.au: Kindle Store
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“My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me,” Mr. Trump said during a lengthy conversation with the Times reporters. L'état, c'est moi
Read "AGI Eschatology and Security Scatology" by @jonrlindsay.bsky.social: perryworldhouse.upenn.edu/news-and-ins...
AGI Eschatology and Security Scatology - Perry World House
Excitement about artificial general intelligence (AGI) is white hot, and that makes me suspicious. Definitions of AGI are all over the map, ranging from achieving human-level intelligence, to exceedin...
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‘Age of Deception offers a disciplined and persuasive alternative to dominant ways of thinking about cyber power,’ writes Max van der Horst in his review of @jonrlindsay.bsky.social's recent book: bindinghook.com/rethinking-c...
Rethinking cyber power beyond the language of war
Jon Lindsay’s Age of Deception: Cybersecurity as Secret Statecraft offers a sober alternative to the cyberwar rhetoric, showing how cyber operations function as intelligence contests shaped by secrecy...
bindinghook.com
The script writers are way too on the nose with the symbolism this season. We really need to cancel the show. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
Trump Administration Live Updates: White House Changes Course and Will Demolish Entire East Wing
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No it actually was not. Diversity initiatives are not just about affirmative action, ensuring a democratic military represents its demos. Diversity also matters for intellectual performance in a world of complex high-tech operations among foreign societies. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...
Opinion | That Hegseth Speech Was Actually Pretty Good
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