Herbert Lin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3877039 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Herbert Lin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Herbert |
| FAMILY NAME | Lin |
| SIGNATURE | LIN H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Senior Research Scholar at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, and Hank J. Holland Fellow in Cyber Policy and Security at the Hoover Institution |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7464-4069 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
AI in the information ecosystem and its impact on nuclear escalation
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the information ecosystem. AI tools can generate realistic deepfakes, synthetic feeds, and fabricated accounts at scale. These could flood analysts during crises with large volumes of information that overload their capabilities. In turn, the stream of misinformation could interact with the cognitive biases of decision makers, possibly driving them toward quick escalation over deliberate action. Conseq…
Cartographier un angle mort
Malgré plusieurs années de préparation aux cyberattaques contre les infrastructures vitales et contre les forces militaires américaines, il est clair désormais que les intentions de la Russie et les détails de son opération d’influence lors de la campagne présidentielle américaine de 2016 sont restés dans l’angle mort du gouvernement américain et de la Silicon Valley. Cet article s’intéresse à cet angle mort et à la vision occidentale, centrée s…
Diagonal Export Controls to Counter Diagonal Transnational Attacks on Civil Society
Modern geopolitics includes measures short of armed conflict designed to control decision-making in, and action by, target states. One increasingly significant category of these measures involves attacks by foreign states against civil society institutions in target states. Liberal states that seek to protect their civil societies from this interference seek to bolster civil society defences, to determine the origin of and respond to attacks and …
Optimizing Cyberdeterrence
This book is a recent addition to the growing literature on cyberwar, cyberconflict, and cyberdeterrence. Its major claim is that it seeks to provide “a distinctive strategic vision for cyberdeterrence to restrain foreign-based cyberattacks,” contrasting a “traditional, narrow, direct deterrence (such as Cold War nuclear deterrence) . . . with a broader, more inclusive cyberdeterrence designed to alter the cyberattacker’s decision calculus” throu…
Cyber conflict and international humanitarian law
Conflict in cyberspace refers to actions taken by parties to a conflict to gain advantage over their adversaries in cyberspace by using various technological tools and people-based techniques. In principle, advantages can be obtained by damaging, destroying, disabling, or usurping an adversary's computer systems (‘cyber attack’) or by obtaining information that the adversary would prefer to keep secret (‘cyber espionage’ or ‘cyber exploitation’).…
Fluency with information technology
Cryptography's Role in Securing the Information Society
For every opportunity presented by the information age, there is an opening to invade the privacy and threaten the security of the nation, U.S. businesses, and citizens in their private lives. The more information that is transmitted in computer-readable form, the more vulnerable we become to automated spying. It's been estimated that some 10 billion words of computer-readable data can be searched for as little as $1. Rival companies can glean pr…
Cyber conflict and international humanitarian law
Conflict in cyberspace refers to actions taken by parties to a conflict to gain advantage over their adversaries in cyberspace by using various technological tools and people-based techniques. In principle, advantages can be obtained by damaging, destroying, disabling, or usurping an adversary's computer systems (‘cyber attack’) or by obtaining information that the adversary would prefer to keep secret (‘cyber espionage’ or ‘cyber exploitation’).…
Fluency with information technology
Optimizing Cyberdeterrence
This book is a recent addition to the growing literature on cyberwar, cyberconflict, and cyberdeterrence. Its major claim is that it seeks to provide “a distinctive strategic vision for cyberdeterrence to restrain foreign-based cyberattacks,” contrasting a “traditional, narrow, direct deterrence (such as Cold War nuclear deterrence) . . . with a broader, more inclusive cyberdeterrence designed to alter the cyberattacker’s decision calculus” throu…
Cryptography's Role in Securing the Information Society
For every opportunity presented by the information age, there is an opening to invade the privacy and threaten the security of the nation, U.S. businesses, and citizens in their private lives. The more information that is transmitted in computer-readable form, the more vulnerable we become to automated spying. It's been estimated that some 10 billion words of computer-readable data can be searched for as little as $1. Rival companies can glean pr…
Fluency with information technology
Cyber conflict and international humanitarian law
Conflict in cyberspace refers to actions taken by parties to a conflict to gain advantage over their adversaries in cyberspace by using various technological tools and people-based techniques. In principle, advantages can be obtained by damaging, destroying, disabling, or usurping an adversary's computer systems (‘cyber attack’) or by obtaining information that the adversary would prefer to keep secret (‘cyber espionage’ or ‘cyber exploitation’).…
Optimizing Cyberdeterrence
This book is a recent addition to the growing literature on cyberwar, cyberconflict, and cyberdeterrence. Its major claim is that it seeks to provide “a distinctive strategic vision for cyberdeterrence to restrain foreign-based cyberattacks,” contrasting a “traditional, narrow, direct deterrence (such as Cold War nuclear deterrence) . . . with a broader, more inclusive cyberdeterrence designed to alter the cyberattacker’s decision calculus” throu…
Cartographier un angle mort
Malgré plusieurs années de préparation aux cyberattaques contre les infrastructures vitales et contre les forces militaires américaines, il est clair désormais que les intentions de la Russie et les détails de son opération d’influence lors de la campagne présidentielle américaine de 2016 sont restés dans l’angle mort du gouvernement américain et de la Silicon Valley. Cet article s’intéresse à cet angle mort et à la vision occidentale, centrée s…
Diagonal Export Controls to Counter Diagonal Transnational Attacks on Civil Society
Modern geopolitics includes measures short of armed conflict designed to control decision-making in, and action by, target states. One increasingly significant category of these measures involves attacks by foreign states against civil society institutions in target states. Liberal states that seek to protect their civil societies from this interference seek to bolster civil society defences, to determine the origin of and respond to attacks and …
AI in the information ecosystem and its impact on nuclear escalation
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the information ecosystem. AI tools can generate realistic deepfakes, synthetic feeds, and fabricated accounts at scale. These could flood analysts during crises with large volumes of information that overload their capabilities. In turn, the stream of misinformation could interact with the cognitive biases of decision makers, possibly driving them toward quick escalation over deliberate action. Conseq…
Computer Science (5 works) · Cybersecurity and Cyber Warfare Studies (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Computer security (4 works) · Cyberspace (2 works) · Information and Cyber Security (2 works) · Law (2 works) · The Internet (2 works) · Action (physics (1 work) · Adversary (1 work)