During this initial period of the network ’ s development, the dominant theory about its regulation — to the extent that anyone was thinking seriously about regulation at all —w as that the Internet itself was a separate space, often called “ cyberspace.” The concept of cyberspace melded the creativity of the science fi ction writer with the aspirations of the democratic theorist dreaming of a fre. [...] We 22 Ronald Deibert and Rafal Rohozinski lay out the major driving forces of cyberspace contests: the continued rapid expansion of cyberspace throughout all aspects of society, including the rapid rise of mobile access devices; a demographic shift from the North and West to the South and East as a new generation of digital natives outside the industrialized West logs on and brings with them a new. [...] The majority of new Internet users in 2010 came from the developing world.1 7 While many Western analysts like to think of cyberspace as the realm of high-tech chrome and virtual light, it is in the back streets of the developing world, with its intermittent power, crowded Internet caf és , and burgeoning wireless access points, that the future of the Internet is now being forged. [...] The actors that represent the majority of users today, stakeholders from the South, the developing world, and the non-English segments of the net, will do more to shape the future of cyberspace than any discussions at the Pentagon or in policy circles in North America and Europe. [...] As the Infor- mation Warfare Monitor has shown in the GhostNet and S hadows in the Cloud reports, and recent events in Iran, Burma, and Tunisia have demonstrated, the techniques of the cybercriminal are being redeployed for political purposes, including espionage and infi ltration of adversaries.2 7 With the recently revealed Stuxnet worm, developed to target the software used to control nuclear f.
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