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1. What conflicting choices does Britain face in
   implementing cyber security?


2. How are the UK’s cyber- security concerns
   also transnational issues?


3. Are threats to global cyber security a
   tragedy of the commons? If so, how?


4. Should the developing world jump into
   cyberspace before it is secure? Why or why
   not?
   a. UK Cabinet Office. “The UK Cyber Security Strategy:
   Protecting and promoting the UK in a digital world,”
   November 2011, www. gov. uk / government / uploads / system
   / uploads / attachment _ data / file / 60961 / uk - cyber - security

• strategy - final. pdf.
  b. Ofcom, “Facts & figures,” 2015, http:// media. ofcom. org
  . uk / facts /.
  c. “2010 to 2015 government policy: cyber security,” May
  8, 2015, www. gov. uk / government / publications / 2010 - to


• 2015 - government - policy - cyber - security / 2010 - to - 2015


• government - policy - cyber - security.

not just from individual citizens, groups  and
organ izations, and businesses but also from
other states. In thinking through the broader
issues, Britain recognized that not only could it
not succeed unless all other developed coun-
tries collaborated, but that it could not suc-
ceed unless developing countries succeeded
as well. In Britain’s view, unlike that of the
United States, for example, no one is secure
unless every one is secure; or, in other words,
UK cyber security will only be as strong as
its  weakest link. In a world in which cyber-
space links virtually every thing, this is no small
challenge.
In meeting that challenge, the UK govern-
ment initiated a Conference on Cyberspace
in London in 2011. Since then, the newly titled
Global Conference on Cyberspace has con-
vened in Hungary, Seoul, and The Hague. It
will meet next in Mexico City in 2017. The
conferences bring together se nior govern-
ment officials, ministers, industry leaders, and
representatives of both the cyber technical
community and civil society in a truly global
forum.
Beyond this global strategy, the UK con-
tinues to advance its cyber- security agenda
across eight linked domains: (1) setting up a
National Cyber Crime Unit; (2) establishing a
cyber- security, information sharing partner-
ship; (3) identifying and analyzing threats and
strengthening its networks; (4) building cyber-
security capacity internationally; (5) providing
cyber- security advice for business and the
public; (6) promoting economic growth in the
cyber- security sector; (7) working with industry
on minimum standards and princi ples; and (8)
improving cyber skills, education, and profes-
sional opportunities.c

At the London Cyberspace Conference on November

2, 2011, Foreign Secretary William Hague argues for

Internet freedom. The global conference was

designed to set up the “rules of the road” for

cyberspace.